Associate Director, Research Analyst (Machine Learning)

Location: 100% remote from anywhere in the United States; report to the Stamford headquarters

Salary: USD $129,150–$150,000 annually, plus a discretionary bonus

Company

hirify.global is an asset and wealth management firm, with O’Shaughnessy Asset Management operating as its specialist investment management and quantitative research division.

What you will do

• Lead, supervise, and release programming and research for fund tax loss harvesting across fixed-income, equity, and mixed funds.
• Build optimization engines, machine learning pipelines, and scalable data-management and analysis tools for quantitative investment processes.
• Use Python and statistical modeling to test and optimize client accounts, including regression and comparative analysis.
• Engineer and compare optimization solvers and recommend alternative business-provider solutions.
• Resolve conflicts between trading thresholds and restrictions, improving tax-optimization feasibility.
• Simulate tax alpha and compare tax loss harvesting capabilities across portfolio compositions, rebalancing frequencies, lot-relief methodologies, and turnover levels.

Requirements

• Master’s degree in Finance, Mathematics, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
• At least three years of experience building optimization engines and machine learning pipelines for data-intensive quantitative investment processes.
• Experience with Python, statistical modeling, regression analysis, and comparative testing.
• Experience with GPT, BERT, boosted trees, and relative valuation PCA dimensionality reduction.
• Experience improving investment risk/return user interfaces and leading fund tax loss harvesting initiatives.
• Must be able to work remotely from within the United States.

Culture & Benefits

• Competitive base compensation, annual discretionary bonus, and recognition rewards.
• Healthcare, dental, vision, insurance, disability, and wellbeing benefits.
• 401(k) plan with an 85% company match up to applicable IRS limits.
• Paid time off, holidays, sick leave, parental and caregiving leave, bereavement leave, and volunteering leave.
• Employee stock investment and company-fund purchase programs.
• Learning resources, education assistance, and career development programs.