Royal Bank of Canada

Director, Quantitative Risk Analytics, Core Quant

Royal Bank of Canada$210K — $275K *
Finance & Insurance
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Advanced degree (MS/PhD) in relevant fields like computer science or applied mathematics
  • Minimum of 3 years' experience in quant library development
  • Strong understanding of equity derivatives pricing and risk management
  • Proficiency in C++ 17/20 with a solid grasp of modern C++ features
  • Good communication skills to interface with tech teams and other quants

Responsibilities

  • Lead the modernization of legacy pricing libraries and transitions to C++ standards
  • Refactor existing codebases into modular, well-structured components
  • Design stable APIs for seamless integration with downstream systems
  • Build messaging layers for efficient inter-system communication
  • Oversee analytics codebase maintenance, ensuring adherence to coding standards

Benefits

  • Comprehensive Total Rewards Program including bonuses and flexible benefits
  • Supportive leadership focused on personal and professional development
  • Dynamic and collaborative team environment
  • Opportunities for challenging projects
  • Scope for taking on greater responsibilities over time
Full Job Description
Job Description

What is the opportunity?

The GE Quantitative Analytics team is looking for an experienced core analytics quant/strat to greatly enhance our pricing and risk framework. In this role, the candidate will help with our quant library renovation effort. The candidate is expected to have a solid understanding of relevant financial mathematics and modeling, be familiar with basic architectural components of quant analytics, experienced in implementing scalable solutions, and be able to communicate effectively with tech and other quants.

What will you do?
  • Analytics Renovation: improve the overall library design for performance and scalability:
    • Lead modernization of legacy pricing libraries to current C++ standards (C++17/20)
    • Refactor monolithic codebases into modular, testable components with clean separation of concerns
    • Design clean, stable APIs that abstract pricing complexity from downstream consumers (risk systems, trading tools, front-end applications)
    • Build messaging and serialization layers (e.g. FlatBuffers, Protobuf) for efficient cross-system communication
  • Software Management: responsible for analytics codebase maintenance, library testing and release.
    • Establish and enforce coding standards, API design patterns, and documentation practices across the quant library
    • Work closely with technology teams to ensure library interfaces are robust, versioned, and well-documented


What do you need to succeed?

Must-have:
  • Advanced degree (MS/PhD) in computer science, mathematical finance, applied mathematics/statistics, physics, engineering and a related field
  • VP or Director level with:
    • A minimum of 3-years of quant library development experience: skilled in mapping derivatives pricing requirement into a framework backed by abstract computer linguistic
    • Good understanding of equity derivatives pricing, exposures to generic Monte-Carlo, PDE, and product scripting
    • experience in financial instruments, model data structure, risk-engine implementations and designing library APIs.
    • knowledge in C++ 20/17/14, proficiency in modern C++: STL, move semantic, template and initialization list
    • Good communication skills.

Nice-to-have:
  • Numerical acceleration: SIMD, hardware intrinsic (AVX512/AVX256/SSE42)
  • Multi-thread, vectorized computation, GPU (CUDA/OpenCL)
  • Debugging and memory check tools: msbuildValgrind/ASAN
  • Interoperability to C++: C FFI, C# p/invoke, Pybind11


What's in it for you?

  • A comprehensive Total Rewards Program including bonuses and flexible benefits, competitive compensation, commissions, and stock where applicable
  • Leaders who support your development through coaching and managing opportunities
  • Work in a dynamic, collaborative, progressive, and high-performing team
  • Opportunities to do challenging work
  • Opportunities to take on progressively greater accountabilities


The Expected Salary Range For This Particular Position Is $210,000 - $275,000 Depending On Your Experience, Skills, And Registration Status, Market Conditions And Business Needs.
You Have The Potential To Earn More Through Rbc's Discretionary Variable Compensation Program Which Gives You An Opportunity To Increase Your Total Compensation, Provided The Business Meets Its Performance Targets And You Meet Your Individual Goals.
Rbc's Compensation Philosophy And Principles Recognize The Importance Of A Highly Qualified Global Workforce And Plays A Critical Role In Attracting, Engaging And Retaining Talent That:
Drives Rbc's High-Performance Culture
Enables Collective Achievement Of Our Strategic Goals
Generates Sustainable Shareholder Returns And Above Market Shareholder Value

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Additional Job Details

Address:

BROOKFIELD PLACE FKA 3 WORLD FINANCIAL CENTER, 200 VESEY STREET:NEW YORK

City:

New York

Country:

United States of America

Work hours/week:

40

Employment Type:

Full time

Platform:

CAPITAL MARKETS

Job Type:

Regular

Pay Type:

Salaried

Posted Date:

2026-07-23

Application Deadline:

2026-07-30
Note: Applications will be accepted until 11:59 PM on the day prior to the application deadline date above

RBC is presently inviting candidates to apply for this existing vacancy. Applying to this posting allows you to express your interest in this current career opportunity at RBC. Qualified applicants may be contacted to review their resume in more detail.

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