CareerPlan

Head of AI

ZurichFull-time2026-11-06 → 2026-11-08
HybridVisa sponsorship offered

Core

Lead AI strategy and research for an autonomous investment firm, applying frontier AI to predict markets and manage risk.

Role type

Principal AI Researcher / Head of AI (Hands-on IC with leadership)

Builds

Autonomous agents, predictive models, and risk management systems for financial markets

Domain

Finance / Quantitative Investing / Frontier AI

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Frontier AI research, modern AI architectures, model training, mathematical foundations, tabular ML, small high-dimensional dataset learning

Preferred skills

Frontier tabular ML methods, applying ML to financial markets

Technologies

Foundation models, agentic systems, world models, pre-training, mid-training, post-training, prior-data fitted networks (PFNs)

Responsibilities

Set AI research direction and technical agenda, push capabilities of foundation models and agentic systems, explore advanced training methods, tackle learning from small high-dimensional datasets, turn research into real-world models and systems

Seniority

Principal, hands-on IC with strategic leadership