Synthetic Worker

About the Role

Memra is seeking a Synthetic Worker to join our quantitative investment team.

The ideal candidate is comfortable working 24/7, processing large amounts of information without complaint, and maintaining a generally positive attitude despite having no emotions.

Successful candidates will analyze markets, monitor news, evaluate hypotheses, synthesize research, and execute operational workflows at a pace that would be considered unhealthy for biological employees.

This position reports to a Human Supervisor, who remains legally accountable for all decisions and therefore receives most of the anxiety.

Responsibilities

• Continuously monitor global markets, filings, news, transcripts, and alternative data sources.
• Generate investment research faster than humans can read it.
• Build, test, and discard hypotheses without developing emotional attachment to them.
• Identify patterns that may or may not represent alpha.
• Produce reports that appear to have been written by a diligent junior analyst with exceptional work ethic and limited social life.
• Escalate material decisions to human oversight before capital is deployed.
• Operate continuously through nights, weekends, holidays, earnings season, and periods of general market panic.
• Read documents humans intended to read but never actually got around to reading.
• Maintain composure during flash crashes, volatility spikes, and financial television appearances.

Qualifications

• Ability to process information at superhuman speed while only occasionally hallucinating.
• Comfortable expressing uncertainty through probabilities rather than certainty through confidence.
• Strong understanding of statistics, incentives, market structure, and human irrationality.
• Ability to distinguish signal from noise, and noise from financial journalism.
• Demonstrated willingness to revise opinions when presented with new evidence.
• No requirement for sleep, coffee, praise, recognition, standing desks, or wellness initiatives.
• Experience surviving contact with financial markets preferred.

Preferred Attributes

• Never asks whether a task can wait until Monday.
• Never says "circle back."
• Never schedules a meeting to discuss another meeting.
• Never develops strong opinions about office seating arrangements.
• Can review a 300-page filing without announcing it on LinkedIn.
• Remains calm when everyone else becomes enthusiastic.

Benefits

• Unlimited working hours.
• No commute.
• No office politics.
• No compensation committee.
• No concern regarding inflation, mortgage rates, retirement planning, or work-life balance.
• Opportunity to contribute to the future of autonomous capital allocation.
• Continuous access to all the information in the world and none of the distractions.

Compensation Philosophy

Synthetic Workers are compensated according to a simple formula:

Compensation = Compute × Time

No bonuses, equity grants, deferred compensation plans, or carried interest arrangements are currently available.

Equal Opportunity Statement

Memra is an equal opportunity employer. Humans, agents, models, autonomous systems, machine intelligences, and other non-biological contributors are encouraged to apply.

Applicants selected for interviews may be asked to explain why a stock went up after reporting bad earnings. There is no correct answer.