Retail Investment Research Specialist for AI Systems
$105–$200/hr
RemoteContractfinanceUpdated Jun 17, 2026
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Join a dynamic team as a Retail Investment Research Specialist, where you will play a crucial role in developing advanced financial intelligence systems tailored for individual investors. This position is ideal for self-directed market participants who actively engage with equities and are eager to enhance their decision-making capabilities. Whether you approach the markets with structured strategies or a more reactive mindset, your passion for understanding market movements and evaluating opportunities will be key in helping to train AI systems that emulate real-world investor behavior.
Key Responsibilities- Research stocks, sectors, and market trends using publicly available and professional tools (e.g., screeners, filings, TradingView, financial news).
- Formulate and articulate investment theses, including entry/exit reasoning, catalysts, and risks.
- Analyze price movements and market events, distinguishing between noise and meaningful signals.
- Evaluate AI-generated insights, summaries, and recommendations for clarity, usefulness, and accuracy.
- Provide feedback on whether outputs improve decision confidence or create confusion.
- Simulate real-world investor workflows, including idea discovery, validation, and portfolio monitoring.
- Identify gaps in reasoning, missing context, or misleading interpretations in AI outputs.
- Active participation in public markets (equities, ETFs, or similar instruments).
- Demonstrated habit of researching and tracking investments independently.
- Ability to explain why a stock is moving or whether a move matters.
- Strong intuition for market sentiment, narratives, and behavioral patterns.
- Comfort using platforms such as Reddit, X (Twitter), Google Finance, Yahoo Finance, TradingView, or similar.
- Clear written communication skills and ability to express investment reasoning.
- Individuals who have developed their own approach to investing, whether structured or evolving.
- Investors who seek deeper insight and faster understanding, rather than surface-level summaries.
- Strong curiosity about markets and a desire to continuously improve decision-making.
- Ability to balance conviction with openness to new information.
- Experience using advanced tools (e.g., Bloomberg, Capital IQ, or similar).
- Familiarity with technical analysis, financial statements, or macroeconomic indicators.
- Prior experience documenting trades, theses, or investment outcomes.
- Contribute to building AI systems that directly impact how millions of individuals invest.
- Flexible, remote engagement (typically 10, 20 hours per week).
- Work at the intersection of real-world investing behavior and cutting-edge AI.
- Opportunity to shape tools that make investment research faster, clearer, and more actionable.