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The Researcher will develop models for portfolio optimization, risk estimation, and credit research while working closely with clients.
Quick Facts
- Role: Researcher
- Location: 5 days/week @ NYC HQ
- Base salary: $200K to $325K
- Equity: aggressive initial grant + annual performance-based bonuses
Moment builds next-generation trading and portfolio management technology. Our core product suite includes high-throughput market data pipelines, automated smart order routing algorithms, real-time portfolio ledgering and position tracking, and high-cardinality portfolio optimization.
Founded in 2023 by a team of quant traders and researchers from Citadel and Jane Street, we've raised over $100M in capital from Andreessen Horowitz and Index Ventures, and we now power mission critical workflows for financial institutions with over $5T+ of assets.
The Research Team at Moment works on problems like:
- 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 quant researcher or quant trader. We are excited to interview strong candidates from outside of the quant trading industry as well.
- You have a bachelor’s degree or PhD in Mathematics, Physics, Statistics, Economics, or Computer Science.
- You have written production-grade code in Python.
- You’re willing and able to just figure stuff out.
- You are excited to work closely with customers. As a researcher at Moment, you are also your own product manager.
- Fixed income quantitative research
- Numerical optimization
- Factor/risk models
- Polars
- Machine learning pipelines
- Multi-modal LLMs
- Health, dental, and vision coverage.
- $150 monthly gym stipend.
- Free lunch and dinner.
$200K to $325K base salary + initial equity grant + annual performance-based equity bonuses.
Top Skills
Python
Moment New York, New York, USA Office
New York, New York, United States
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