CDO

QSentia | AI Investment Intelligence Platform
Equity Based | Pre Seed | Remote | Founding Executive

About the Role

We are looking for a founding Chief Data Officer to build one of the world's most advanced AI investment research organizations. You will own the firm's data strategy, quantitative research, reinforcement learning development, feature engineering, alternative data, model validation, and data governance.

Responsibilities
Define the company's quantitative research roadmap.
Lead development of reinforcement learning models.
Build institutional quality financial datasets.
Develop alpha research across equities, futures, crypto, macro, and alternative data.
Design feature engineering and model validation pipelines.
Build model monitoring and performance analytics.
Lead data governance and quality initiatives.
Recruit quantitative researchers, machine learning scientists, and data engineers.

Qualifications
Advanced degree in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Statistics, Mathematics, Finance, Engineering, or a related field.
Ten or more years in quantitative research, machine learning, or financial data science.
Experience with reinforcement learning, deep learning, time series modeling, and portfolio optimization.
Strong Python, PyTorch, TensorFlow, SQL, and cloud computing experience.
Experience working with institutional financial data.
Strong understanding of equities, futures, options, and portfolio construction.

Nice to Have
Previous hedge fund, asset management, quantitative trading, or proprietary trading experience.
Experience building production AI systems.
Publications or open source contributions in machine learning or quantitative finance.

What We Offer
Founding executive opportunity.
Significant equity ownership.
Opportunity to shape the future of AI powered investment management.
Direct influence on product strategy and company direction.
Remote first environment.
Opportunity to build a category defining fintech company from the ground up.

Join us in building the trusted AI infrastructure for investment management.