AlignerrCoding & software eval
Algorithmic Trading Strategist
up to $80/hr
About this role, in Alignerr's words
What if your hard-won knowledge of markets, execution logic, and trading systems could directly shape how AI reasons about algorithmic strategies? We're looking for experienced Algorithmic Trading Strategists to evaluate trading logic built into AI systems — stress-testing strategies, identifying edge cases, and ensuring the reasoning behind automated decisions holds up in the real world.
What you'll do
- Review and critically evaluate algorithmic trading logic and execution paths
- Analyze order types, routing behavior, and market microstructure assumptions
- Identify risks, inefficiencies, edge cases, and performance bottlenecks in trading strategies
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- Summarize strategy performance across scenarios, market regimes, and time horizons
- Validate alignment with realistic trading constraints, liquidity conditions, and execution realities
- Deliver structured, well-reasoned evaluations as part of recurring strategy-review cycles
- Work independently and asynchronously — fully on your own schedule
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Algorithmic Trading Strategist (AI Training)
About the Role
What if your hard-won knowledge of markets, execution logic, and trading systems could directly shape how AI reasons about algorithmic strategies? We're looking for experienced Algorithmic Trading Strategists to evaluate trading logic built into AI systems — stress-testing strategies, identifying edge cases, and ensuring the reasoning behind automated decisions holds up in the real world.
This is a fully remote, flexible contract role. No AI background needed — just deep, practical experience in systematic or algorithmic trading and the ability to think critically about how strategies perform across conditions.
- Type: Hourly Contract - Location: Remote - Commitment: Flexible, task-based
What You'll Do
* Review and critically evaluate algorithmic trading logic and execution paths * Analyze order types, routing behavior, and market microstructure assumptions * Identify risks, inefficiencies, edge cases, and performance bottlenecks in trading strategies * Summarize strategy performance across scenarios, market regimes, and time horizons * Validate alignment with realistic trading constraints, liquidity conditions, and execution realities * Deliver structured, well-reasoned evaluations as part of recurring strategy-review cycles * Work independently and asynchronously — fully on your own schedule
Who You Are
Must-Have: * Hands-on experience in systematic or algorithmic trading — prop, institutional, or independent * Strong command of order types, execution timing, slippage, and market microstructure * Ability to trace and critique multi-step trading logic and communicate findings clearly in writing * Sharp analytical mindset with a methodical approach to evaluating strategy quality
Nice to Have: * Familiarity with backtesting frameworks or execution simulation tools * Experience building, reviewing, or stress-testing quantitative strategies * Background in quantitative finance, financial engineering, or a related technical field
Why Join Us
* Work on cutting-edge AI projects alongside leading research labs * Fully remote and flexible — work when and where it suits you * Freelance autonomy with the structure of meaningful, task-based work * Put your specialized market expertise to work in a way that has real, lasting impact on AI development * Potential for ongoing work and contract extension as new projects launch
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- Getting paid
- Billed weekly, Monday to Sunday, with approved work paid by the following Friday, according to Labelbox's help center. Payment goes through Stripe Connect or PayPal depending on your location, with one provider per country. intercom.help/labelbox/en/articles/13600616-alignerr-paym..., alignerr.com/process
- Before your first paid task
- Sign up, apply, verify your identity, set up billing and onboard. Some jobs add a Zara AI interview or domain assessments. alignerr.com/process
- How much work
- Time to your first project depends on demand and your skills, and there is no minimum number of hours. alignerr.com/faqs
- Contract
- Independent contractor, under terms with ALIGNERR LLC. alignerr.com/faqs, alignerr.com/privacy
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How does the pay compare?Across Coding & software eval roles, not this role alone
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Pay across the field: Coding & software eval
Across 391 roles in this field with a stated hourly rate in US dollars, on 14 platforms, the middle half pays $65 to $120 an hour at the top of the range, and the median is $95. This role's top rate, $80, is in the middle half. Of the 140 distinct rates we count, 48 are lower and 82 are higher.
| Platform | Roles | Top of range, per hour |
|---|---|---|
| Alignerr (this platform) | 136 | $50 to $400 · median $100 |
| micro1 | 44 | $60 to $350 · median $120 |
| Handshake AI | 43 | $47 to $125 · median $80 |
| Meridial (Invisible) | 34 | $22 to $150 · median $60 |
| Mercor | 33 | $60 to $200 · median $105 |
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- First seen here on 27 Aug 2026, and still on Alignerr's list when we last read it on 13 Oct 2026.
- The listed pay has not changed since then.
- Posted by Alignerr
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- Listing ID
- 17dc4ea1-9ea9-4e20-93e6-9379c2e20027
Pay as the source states it: “$40-80/hr”.
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