AI Researcher

Position Overview

• Location Type: OnSite
• Employment Type: FullTime
• Salary: Not provided

Rogo is building "thought partners" to enhance intelligence and creativity in financial services. They are a rapidly growing startup based in NYC focused on developing cutting-edge AI systems and redefining knowledge work.

About the Role

The AI Researcher role focuses on translating recent technological breakthroughs into transformative financial products. It leverages LLMs and Reinforcement Learning to automate financial workflows, placing the individual at the heart of a transformative shift.

Requirements

• Bachelors in Computer Science or related degree.
• 3-6 years of experience working on large language model training or post-training (or equivalent PhD).
• Highly proficient in writing LLM training code in PyTorch or JAX.
• Strong programming skills and general Computer Science knowledge.

Responsibilities

• Architect end-to-end learned systems combining the power of LLMs and Reinforcement Learning to automate entire financial workflows.
• Design and build large-scale infrastructure for evaluating answer and response quality, and directly feed this data back into learned systems as a reward.
• Partner closely with product managers and engineers to ensure every solution delivered genuine user value and is guided by real needs.
• Raise the bar for code quality, reliability, and product velocity.
• Collaboratively push yourself and peers to develop technically and interpersonally.

Bonus Qualifications

• Experience working directly in training or post-training LLM at a frontier lab (OpenAI, Anthropic, DeepMind, Meta).
• Experience with deep reinforcement learning in any context (autonomous vehicles, robotics, or LLMs).
• Experience working with data generated by human experts for model training.
• Financial services experience.

Who You Are

• Thrives in fast-paced environments.
• High-intensity and cares deeply about work.
• Ambitious and enjoys solving seemingly impossible problems.
• Curious.

Company Information

Why Join Rogo?

• Exceptional traction: strong PMF with leading financial institutions.
• World-class team: prioritizing talent density.
• Velocity: fast-paced learning and new challenges.
• Frontier technology: developing cutting-edge AI systems.
• Cutting-Edge Product: state-of-the-art platform reinventing knowledge work.