Quantitative Strategist - Credit Focus

Company Overview

Soros Fund Management LLC (SFM) is a global asset manager and family office founded by George Soros in 1970. With $28 billion in assets under management (AUM), SFM serves as the principal asset manager for the Open Society Foundations, one of the world’s largest charitable foundations dedicated to advancing justice, human rights, and democracy.

Distinct from other investment platforms, SFM thrives on agility, acting decisively when conviction is high and exercising patience when it’s not. With permanent capital, a select group of major clients, and an unconstrained mandate, we invest opportunistically wITh a long-term view in a wide range of strategies and asset classes, including public and private equity and credit, fixed income, foreign exchange, and alternative assets. Our teams operate with autonomy, while cross-team collaboration strengthens our conviction and empowers us to capitalize on market dislocations.

At SFM, we foster an ownership mindset, encouraging professionals to challenge the status quo, innovate, and take initiative. We prioritize development, enabling team members to push beyond their roles, voice bold ideas, and contribute to our long-term success. This culture of continuous growth and constructive debate fuels innovation and drives efficiencies.

Our impact is measured by both the returns we generate and the values we uphold, from environmental stewardship to social responsibility. Operating as a unified team across geographies and mandates, we remain committed to our mission, ensuring a meaningful, lasting impact.

Headquartered in New York City with offices in Greenwich, Garden City, London, and Dublin, SFM employs 200 professionals.

The Quantitative Development and Strategy team is responsible for research and analytics technology at SFM. We work closely with the front office and across SFM to provide solutions across many areas of quantitative finance. 

We are seeking a Quantitative Strategist to partner with our credit portfolio managers to generate insights that drive investment strategies and improve desk performance. This role emphasizes rigorous research, testing, and interpretation of results. Success requires creativity in scoping research problems, discipline in testing hypotheses, and the ability to communicate findings clearly to investment decision-makers.

Major Responsibilities

• Assist with desk strategy and workflows
• Analyze large datasets (market, economic, alternative) to extract actionable insights that inform trading strategies
• Contribute to desk P&L and risk reporting infrastructure and reporting
• Work with our PM teams on quantitative research projects
• Partner with broader quant team to build out signal back-testing and data analysis infrastructure
• Build visualization tools for signal, research, and back-testing
• Automate research and order generation workflows
• Replace the desk's legacy excel based infrastructure with modern, Python-based, architecture

What We Value  

• Bachelor’s Degree in a STEM field. Advanced degree preferred.
• 5+ years of relevant work experience in a front office quantitative role
• Familiarity with credit markets, including investment‑grade, high‑yield, and CDS markets; strong understanding of credit curves, OAS/z‑spread measures, relative‑value frameworks, and bond‑level analytics such as DV01, carry/roll, and curve fitting.
• Exposure to structured products (CLO, ABS, RMBS) and concepts such as prepayment, credit migration, recovery assumptions, default modeling, or hazard rates is a strong plus.
• Strong proficiency in Python and scientific libraries (NumPy, Pandas, SciPy, scikit‑learn); capable of writing production‑quality code with testing and documentation.
• Experience working with modern compute and engineering stacks such as version control (Git), CI/CD pipelines, Docker, and workflow orchestration tools.
• Experience designing and testing predictive models with large financial datasets.
• Excellent communication skills targeting technical and non-technical audiences.

We anticipate the base salary of this role to be between $175,000-225,000. In addition to a base salary, the successful candidate will also be eligible to receive a discretionary year-end bonus. 

In all respects, candidates need to reflect the following SFM core values:

Smart risk-taking   //   Owner’s Mindset   //   Teamwork   //   Humility   //   Integrity