# Post-Training Research Scientist - Forecasting and Reasoning

POST-TRAINING RESEARCH SCIENTIST - FORECASTING AND REASONING We develop and use LLMs for forecasting and decision-making in financial markets. Our research combines structured time series, unstructured information, and computational tools to study how models acquire useful evidence, make calibrated predictions, and revise their beliefs as new information arrives. We rely on proprietary datasets, domain expertise, and real investment applications to evaluate these capabilities. We deal with rich, challenging, noisy, non-stationary data. Our work focuses on advances in training environments, reward design, policy optimization, post-training and evaluation. WHAT YOU'LL DO We are looking for an exceptional post-training research scientist to develop methodologies across environment and state construction, data generation and mixing, training, and evaluation. Working closely with other researchers, you will help shape the research agenda and translate successful methods into production. Specifically, you will: Develop post-training methods for forecasting and reasoning. Design and execute supervised fine-tuning, reinforcement learning, on-policy distillation, and related methods to imp

- **Id**: 4188302
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/point72-post-training-research-scientist-forecasting-and-reasoning>
- **Role**: AI/ML
- **Role family**: AI/ML
- **Work mode**: on_site
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: New York, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-11-12T16:56:34Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-11-12
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-12T18:51:19Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 0
- **Description format**: text
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- **Benefits**: Parental leave, Wellness
- **Relocation offered**: no
- **Industries**: Venture Capital, Hedge Funds & Alternative Investments

## Company

- **Id**: 3801
- **Name**: Point72
- **Domain**: point72.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/point72>
- **Size band**: 1001-5000
- **Is staffing agency**: no
- **Employer type**: direct
- **Is intermediary**: yes
- **Ats vendor**: Greenhouse

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 77
- **Open postings**: 164
- **Ghost share**: 0.299
- **Stale share**: 0
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 138
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-12T10:38:37Z

## Technologies

- **DeepSpeed** — Optional: no
- **FSDP** — Optional: no
- **JAX** — Optional: no
- **Knowledge Distillation** — Optional: no
- **LLM** — Optional: no
- **Megatron-LM** — Optional: no
- **Model Distillation** — Optional: no
- **Post-training** — Optional: no
- **Python** — Optional: no
- **PyTorch** — Optional: no
- **Reinforcement Learning** — Optional: no
- **Reward Modeling** — Optional: no
- **SFT** — Optional: no
- **SGLang** — Optional: no
- **Time Series** — Optional: no

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 0

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

### Education

- **Level**: bachelor
- **Optional**: no

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-12T18:51:19Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: yes; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 0; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: H-1B filings in 12 months: 83 · green card filings: 20; Filings 12m: 83

## Liveness

- **Score**: 86
- **Band**: hot
- **Label**: Hiring now
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.86
- **P room**: 1
- **Age days**: 0
- **Expected fill days**: 138
- **Reasons**: conf:1, win:early, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-12T20:39:32Z

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