Finance AI Training Expert

About OpenTrain

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Creating an OpenTrain account is free. In this role, your finance expertise will help shape how advanced AI systems understand and perform real financial work.

About AI Training and Evaluation

AI training is the human side of building artificial intelligence. Experts review model responses, create high-quality examples, and define what accurate, well-reasoned work looks like so that AI systems can improve.

Finance specialists are especially important for evaluating answers that may sound convincing but contain flawed assumptions, incomplete reasoning, or technical errors. Your judgment will help make financial AI outputs more reliable and useful.

The Role

OpenTrain AI is seeking a senior Finance AI Training Expert to work with research and program management teams on improving how frontier AI models reason about real financial work. You will translate experienced financial judgment into explicit, teachable criteria.

This is a hybrid role based in the Bay Area, California. The engagement is described as full-time at 40 hours per week for an initial six-month term, with contractor and part-time classifications also provided in the role details.

• Pay: $110-$150 per hour
• Initial engagement: 6 months
• Schedule: 40 hours per week; the listing also specifies 20+ hours per week
• Work arrangement: Hybrid
• Location: Bay Area, California
• Language: English
• Engagement type: Contractor

What You'll Do

You will review finance knowledge-work tasks and model outputs, create detailed evaluation materials, and collaborate with researchers and specialists in adjacent fields. The work requires turning practical financial expertise into clear standards that can be used to train and assess AI systems.

• Vet finance tasks and model outputs for missing behaviors, weak reasoning, and flawed assumptions.
• Write high-quality instruction specifications for financial work.
• Produce golden solutions to financial problems.
• Design challenging finance tasks and evaluation sets that reflect real-world practice.
• Work with research teams and adjacent-field specialists to maintain consistent standards.
• Distinguish well-reasoned financial answers from plausible-sounding but incorrect responses.

Required Qualifications

This role requires substantial professional finance experience and senior-level ownership of analysis and decisions. Candidates should have dedicated experience at a recognized institution and genuine specialization in at least one core finance discipline.

Hands-on professional use of large language models is required, along with the ability to write precise, structured instructions and feedback. An advanced degree or professional credential is strongly preferred.

• 5+ years of substantive, dedicated professional finance experience.
• Experience at an investment bank, asset manager, private equity firm, Big Four firm, corporate finance function, or financial regulator.
• Specialization in corporate finance and FP&A, investment banking and M&A, asset or wealth management, private equity or private credit, quantitative finance and risk management, treasury, or accounting and audit.
• Clear progression to a senior individual-contributor or leadership level, such as VP, Director, Principal, Managing Director, Portfolio Manager, Controller, or CFO.
• Hands-on working use of large language models in professional work.
• Excellent written communication and precise, structured feedback skills.
• Ability to write instruction specifications and golden solutions.
• MBA, MS, PhD, CFA, CPA, or FRM strongly preferred.

Location and On-Site Expectations

You must currently live in the Bay Area and be able to work on-site with the project team multiple days each week when required. Candidates outside the Bay Area must be willing to relocate at their own cost.

• Bay Area residence is required.
• On-site attendance is expected multiple days per week when required.
• Relocation, if needed, is at the candidate's own cost.

Why Build AI With OpenTrain

AI training and data labeling are rapidly growing forms of technology work. Contributors help shape how modern AI systems reason, communicate, and perform specialized tasks.

OpenTrain gives experts a way to start and grow an AI training career through flexible opportunities across the industry. Your finance knowledge can directly influence the quality and reliability of cutting-edge AI.

• Work on advanced AI training and evaluation.
• Apply specialized finance expertise to practical model improvement.
• Build experience in a fast-growing area of technology.
• Create an OpenTrain account for free and apply in minutes.