About the Role
Mindrift connects specialists with project-based AI opportunities for leading tech companies, focused on testing, evaluating, and improving AI systems. Participation is project-based, not permanent employment.
Responsibilities
- Design and evaluate Quarterly Business Review scenarios, including performance vs. benchmark, allocation drift against IPS tolerance bands, and material fund document changes.
- Write and grade underperformance explanation tasks grounded strictly in fund documents.
- Create rebalancing test cases with full tax-impact math, including cost basis, capital gains, and alternatives to selling.
- Build tax-loss harvesting scenarios testing the wash-sale rule and substantially identical securities.
- Develop suitability check cases probing risk tolerance, time horizon, prohibited holdings, and concentration limits against an Investment Policy Statement.
- Design ESG look-through scenarios where fund labels diverge from actual holdings.
- Construct fee-stack analysis cases, including expense ratios, advisory fees, and all-in cost comparisons.
- Author goal-projection scenarios testing agent language for assumption-based vs. commitment-based statements.
- Document test cases clearly with verified calculations, policy citations, and correct answers.
Requirements
- Mortgage underwriters and loan origination professionals open to part-time, non-permanent projects.
- Ability to compute time-weighted returns, attribution effects, and portfolio-weighted expense ratios without assistance.
- Practical knowledge of the wash-sale rule, tax-lot accounting methods, and short- vs. long-term gain treatment.
- Investment Policy Statement literacy to identify constraints and conflicts.
- Prospectus and fact-sheet reading discipline to distinguish marketing summaries from legal language.
- Excel modeling competence, including assumptions in named cells, performance attribution models, and tax-impact worksheets.
- FINRA Series 7, 65, or 66 license is a baseline positive signal; its absence on someone claiming significant advisory experience is a red flag.
Skills
- English proficiency
- Written English (C1+)
Work Type
- Project-based
- Part-time
Experience Level
- 3+ years of experience managing portfolios or writing investment research in a fiduciary context (RIA, private wealth, asset management, family office, or bank trust)
Education Level
- Degree in Finance, Economics, Business Administration, Accounting, or related field — or equivalent professional experience
- CFA charterholder status or comparable credentials
Salary/Compensations
- Up to $60 per hour equivalent
About the Company
- Mindrift connects specialists with project-based AI opportunities for leading tech companies, focused on testing, evaluating, and improving AI systems.
