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About the Role

As the team’s Senior AI and technology specialist, you’ll assess how artificial intelligence and other material technologies could structurally reshape global finance, including market and institutional structures, investment practice, professional roles, and standards. This role focuses on AI as a disruptive force in the financial system, translating technological developments into clear structural questions, hypotheses, scenarios, and implications for the Research & Policy Center (RPC) to investigate. You will partner with RPC teams to stress-test assumptions and contribute specialist technical expertise, while also translating technical analysis into external thought leadership and contributing to senior industry discussions.

Responsibilities

Provide deep technical analysis of AI and other material technological developments, prioritizing changes affecting finance while maintaining awareness of emerging capabilities.
Assess AI capability trajectories, architectures, model behavior, scaling dynamics, compute and data constraints, autonomy, control challenges, and institutional feasibility.
Map how technological change could transmit through investment workflows, portfolio construction, risk management, financial institutions, market structure, professional roles, and standards.
Translate technical developments into clear structural questions, hypotheses, critical uncertainties, and plausible future states to inform foresight priorities and RPC work.
Contribute technical expertise to scenario development and stress-testing, ensuring assumptions about AI capability, adoption, governance, and institutional response are credible.
Identify relevant technical constraints, failure modes, governance challenges, and systemic risks, and assess their implications for finance, investment practice, and professional expectations.
Partner with RPC functional teams to stress-test existing research, standards, guidance, and advocacy positions where AI or technological change may affect their relevance.
Support RPC’s living-readiness discipline by identifying material changes in technology, capabilities, or adoption that should trigger reassessment of existing assumptions, positions, or assets.
Produce clear technical landscape assessments, executive briefings, and contributions to broader foresight outputs.
Develop external thought leadership that translates complex technological change into accessible, decision-relevant implications for finance and the investment profession.
Engage researchers, technologists, practitioners, governance experts, and institutional stakeholders to challenge assumptions, maintain current technical understanding, and strengthen analysis.

Requirements

Deep expertise in artificial intelligence, AI systems, architectures, and evolving capability dynamics, with sufficient breadth to assess adjacent technological developments.
Demonstrated ability to reason about AI as an evolving socio-technical system, connecting technical capability with adoption, institutions, governance, and real-world constraints.
Strong understanding of AI capability trajectories, scaling dynamics, compute and data constraints, model behavior, autonomy, failure modes, and governance architectures.
Familiarity with financial markets, investment management, or financial institutions, or demonstrated ability to apply deep technical expertise rapidly to unfamiliar domain contexts.
Ability to distinguish credible developments from speculative or deterministic narratives, while staying open to change that challenges prevailing assumptions.
Ability to explain complex technology clearly to non-technical and senior audiences, without jargon.
Strong systems thinking, including the ability to trace how technological change may transmit through financial markets, institutions, investment workflows, professional practice, roles, and standards.
Comfort operating across long time horizons and with incomplete evidence, together with disciplined judgment about what the available evidence supports.
Exceptional writing and communication skills, with a track record of substantive analysis or thought leadership for sophisticated audiences.
Collaborative style, strong stakeholder-management skills, and the ability to influence without authority.
Ability to engage constructively with senior internal stakeholders and external technical experts.
Ability to contribute specialist expertise to a multidisciplinary team.
Ability to publish in an institutional voice.
Strong intellectual independence, curiosity, and disciplined judgment, including a willingness to challenge prevailing assumptions where technical evidence warrants it.
Strategic foresight experience is a plus but not required.

Skills

Artificial intelligence
AI systems
AI architectures
AI capability dynamics
Socio-technical systems analysis
Financial markets
Investment management
Systems thinking
Technical writing
Communication
Stakeholder management
Collaboration
Intellectual independence
Curiosity
Judgment

Location

United States
United Kingdom

Work Type

Full-time

Experience Level

Senior individual-contributor

Salary/Compensations

$126,000 - $170,000 per year
£90,000 - £111,000 per year

Benefits

Eligibility for an annual incentive bonus
12% employer contribution to a 401(k) or pension plan
Comprehensive medical benefits package
Generous time off
Competitive retirement plans
Flexible work options
Wellbeing and development programs

About the Company

CFA Institute is the global leader in investment excellence and ethics.
With nearly 200,000 charterholders across 160 markets, we promote professional growth, uphold ethical standards, and help advance better financial markets.
Join a global organization committed to putting investors first.

Equal Opportunity

We are an Equal Opportunity Employer.
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This is a global policy that applies to all CFA Institute employees, regardless of location.
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