AI Research Scientist
A role on AllianceBernstein's data science team building AI and predictive tools for investment professionals. It leans toward applied generative AI but includes forecasting and ranking models for research and portfolio work.
What you’d work on
Our reading of the posting: what a new hire in this role would most likely spend their first months on.
- Build retrieval-augmented and agent-based tools that automate research tasks
- Develop forecasting and ranking models from structured and text data
- Put models into production with evaluation and monitoring
- Turn business problems from investment teams into scoped AI projects
What they ask for
Required
- Bachelor's in a quantitative field
- 2+ years deploying machine learning in production
- Strong Python and testing habits
- Machine learning and statistical modelling
- LLMs, embeddings and retrieval
- Agent frameworks and tool calling
Preferred
- Master's or PhD
- Asset management or capital markets experience
- Financial text data such as filings and transcripts
- Cloud, vector databases and MLOps
- Education
- Bachelor's in a quantitative field; Master's or PhD preferred
- Experience
- 2+ years building and deploying ML or AI solutions in production
- Languages and tools
How to prepare
- Build a retrieval-augmented question-answering tool over company filings and evaluate its accuracy
- Practise a text-based prediction task such as earnings call sentiment against returns
- Learn model monitoring and evaluation basics for LLM systems
- Write production-style Python with unit tests
What to study
- Text as Data and NLP for Finance
- Financial Machine Learning
- Python for Quantitative Finance
- Quantitative Data Engineering
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SelfMadeQuant wrote this summary from the employer’s public posting, last checked 6 November 2026. SelfMadeQuant isn’t affiliated with AllianceBernstein and doesn’t handle applications.