ResearcherThe RoleThe research team works on problems like the following:
- Running 100K+ variable portfolio optimizations in seconds.
- Developing machine learning models to estimate relative value and future outperformance in fixed income securities.
- Developing risk models to estimate the tracking error between portfolios.
- Building AI agents to automatically perform credit research, automatically build custom portfolios, and automate other core portfolio management tasks.
You're a good fit if you have- Experience as a quant researcher or quant trader. We are excited to interview strong candidates from outside of the quant trading industry as well.
- Bachelor's degree or PhD in Mathematics, Physics, Statistics, Economics, or Computer Science.
- Written production-grade code in Python.
- The ability to just figure stuff out.
- Eagerness to work closely with customers. As a researcher at Moment, you are also your own product manager.
Even better if you have- Fixed income quantitative research experience
- Numerical optimization experience
- Factor/risk models experience
- Polars experience
- Machine learning pipelines experience
- Multi-modal LLMs experience
Compensation & Benefits- Base salary: $200K to $325K
- Equity: aggressive initial grant + annual performance-based bonuses
- Our beautiful West Village Office with a terrace / 5x a week in office
- Free lunch and dinner.
- $150 monthly gym stipend.
- Health, dental, and vision coverage. 100% company reimbursement.
