Fixed Income Analyst
Job Description
The opportunity
IXO is seeking fixed-income specialists to review the calculations and reasoning behind AI-generated market analyses. Work connects instrument terms and market assumptions to valuation, risk measures and the interpretation of a portfolio’s exposure.
What you will work on
• Build bond valuation and yield examples with explicit cash-flow timing, pricing conventions and assumptions appropriate to the instrument.
• Review spread comparisons and credit analyses, identifying when differences in structure, liquidity or risk make a comparison misleading.
• Assess duration and interest-rate scenarios, explaining both the use and the limitations of the risk measure in the stated example.
• Create cases involving rates, credit or structured products according to your expertise, tracing how an assumption affects the resulting analysis.
• Evaluate portfolio-strategy explanations for consistency with investment objectives and risk constraints, and identify conclusions unsupported by the supplied figures.
Relevant experience and qualifications
• Highlight practical fixed-income research, bond valuation, credit analysis or portfolio work and the instruments you know best.
• Describe your experience with yields, spreads, duration and credit-risk interpretation, including how you check calculations and explain limitations.
• Show your ability to communicate a technical result clearly, including the assumptions that drive a valuation and the uncertainties that matter to its interpretation.
Deliverables
Checked cash-flow and pricing examples, risk-scenario tables, annotated market analyses and reference explanations for AI responses. State the convention and information cutoff where they affect the answer, and explain how alternative assumptions change it. Assignments develop research and evaluation material rather than implement trades or manage live portfolios.
Engagement and pay
This is remote, paid expert work for AI training and evaluation. The advertised rate is $90 – $160/hr USD. Your agreed rate, assignment scope, schedule and expected workload will be confirmed before work begins. Use public, synthetic or explicitly authorized materials; do not submit confidential employer or client information.