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Quantitative Finance Expert

Outlier · Freelance contract, remote, no minimum hours stated

Up to $150 an hour

Listed on the Outlier page as “earn up to $150 USD/hr”, with PhD rates available and possible extra incentives. Outlier says rates vary by expertise, assessment, location and project.

Where

Argentina, Australia, Canada, Mexico, New Zealand, Puerto Rico, the United Kingdom and the United States, as named on the Outlier page.

Screening

Create an Outlier account, upload a CV and describe your background, upload a valid ID and add a phone number, then start tasks if you are accepted.

Role details

Outlier is hiring experienced quantitative finance experts to help models reason about markets. The page describes assessing the factuality and relevance of domain-specific text, writing and answering questions in quantitative finance, and ranking model responses. Example tasks include writing prompts and reviewing a model’s chain of thought.

Who it is for

The stated qualifications include a PhD in quantitative finance, financial engineering or an adjacent field (such as mathematical finance, econometrics, statistics, applied mathematics, operations research, stochastic processes, or economics with a quantitative focus), plus experience as a quant researcher, trader, analyst or risk modeller at a hedge fund, bank, asset manager or trading firm, and clear written English. It is described as a freelance contract with no minimum hours and weekly pay via ACH, PayPal or AirTM.

Applying on Outlier

What happens after you click

  1. The link opens the Outlier opportunity page. Create an account there.
  2. Upload your CV, describe your background, upload a valid ID and add a phone number.
  3. If you are accepted onto available tasks, Outlier says you can start work and are paid weekly.
  4. The advertised ceiling is $150 US an hour. Outlier states that actual rates vary.

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We read and checked this listing on Outlier on 14 November 2026, Europe/London. We summarise for readability and do not copy the posting in full. View on Outlier.