Artafinance

Senior Quant Research Engineer, Trading & Portfolio Optimization

Who can apply: US-based role. The employer has not said which states are eligible — confirm before applying.
Location as listed by the employer: “Bay Area”
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About this role

Artafinance is hiring for a Senior Quant Research Engineer, Trading & Portfolio Optimization role (full-time). See the official posting for full details.

Requirements

  • 5 years of experience or strong interest that comes from having worked close to markets or portfolios — as a quant researcher, trader, or in an advisory/PM-facing capacity — giving you intuition for how these systems sh…
  • Strong quantitative finance background, with real fluency in portfolio theory, optimization, and risk
  • Rigorous math foundation: linear algebra, optimization, probability and statistics.
  • Strong software engineering skills, with the ability to take a model from research to a reliable, production-quality system.
  • Comfortable working across the full stack of a quantitative system: data, models, and the services that run them.
  • Understanding of tax-aware investing concepts such as tax-loss harvesting.
  • Fluency with AI coding tools and a track record of using them to work faster and at higher quality.
  • Excellent communication skills — you'll work directly with investment leadership, not just engineering.

Summarized from the employer's posting — check the full posting for every requirement.