Jefferies

VP, Quant Developer - Risk Analytics

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Base Salary

$175k - $200k/yr

Responsibilities

  • Design and implement autonomous, multi-step agentic workflows with planning, branching execution, and tool use for risk analytics and regulatory submissions.
  • Own the architecture and production deployment of AI-powered risk platforms, including data flow, tool integration, and orchestration layers.
  • Build validation frameworks and testing pipelines to verify AI-generated code and analytical outputs.
  • Develop LLM-powered developer tooling, including CLI agents and code-generation and review pipelines.
  • Translate Market Risk, Credit Risk, and RegIM requirements into robust Python solutions.
  • Develop scalable Python libraries and contribute to testing, peer review, version control, and CI/CD practices.
  • Build efficient data processing, integration, and reporting pipelines for regulatory submissions and internal analytics.

Requirements

  • A master's degree in Financial Engineering, Mathematics, Computer Science, or a related quantitative field is preferred; a bachelor's degree may be considered with exceptional experience.
  • At least 5 years of professional Python backend development experience for financial applications.
  • Demonstrated experience designing and maintaining multi-step agentic workflows, orchestration logic, branching execution, and tool use beyond simple LLM API calls.
  • Professional experience building validation frameworks or testing pipelines for AI-generated outputs, with concrete examples required.
  • Hands-on experience with LLM-powered developer tooling or systems similar to Claude Code, including CLI-based AI agents or LLM-assisted code generation and review pipelines.
  • Experience owning full system architecture for agentic platforms, including data flow, tool integration, orchestration, and deployment.
  • Strong knowledge of Market Risk concepts including VaR, ES, Greeks, stress testing, and FRTB, and Credit Risk concepts including PD/LGD/EAD, CECL, CCAR, and SA-CCR.
  • Ability to develop scalable, reusable Python libraries.
  • Knowledge of RegIM/SIMM and experience with portfolio analytics, derivatives pricing, factor models, large datasets, or efficient processing algorithms are preferred.
  • Proficiency with Docker, Kubernetes, Azure or AWS, and related DevOps tooling is preferred.
  • Familiarity with Python GUI development is preferred.

Benefits

  • Full-time position.
  • Primary location is specified in the posting.
  • Base salary range is $175,000-$200,000.
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