Director, Quantitative Software Engineer
Charles Schwab1 day ago
Base Salary
$230k - $300k/yr
Responsibilities
- Partner with quantitative researchers, portfolio managers, investment professionals, and technology teams to accelerate research, model development, and product delivery.
- Design, build, and support scalable data pipelines, research platforms, analytical platforms, and data storage architectures.
- Develop quantitative applications, data models, integration solutions, visualization tools, exploratory analytics, and decision-support capabilities.
- Support quantitative research workflows including data acquisition, model development, backtesting, validation, deployment, and productionization.
- Implement data governance, lineage tracking, monitoring, data quality controls, reliability, reproducibility, security, and supportability standards.
- Lead complex technical initiatives, build reusable platforms and shared services, influence technology strategy, and mentor engineers and researchers.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, Quantitative Finance, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 8+ years of software engineering experience developing quantitative applications, research platforms, or data-intensive solutions using Python or similar languages such as R, Julia, or MATLAB.
- Experience working directly with quantitative researchers, portfolio managers, or investment professionals.
- Experience designing scalable data pipelines, analytical platforms, data models, data integration solutions, and data storage architectures.
- Knowledge of quantitative research workflows including data acquisition, model development, backtesting, validation, and deployment.
- Experience with data visualization, analytical tools, data governance, lineage tracking, monitoring, and data quality controls.
- Experience with source control, automated testing, containerization, CI/CD, and deployment automation.
- Demonstrated technical leadership, strong communication, adaptability, analytical thinking, and ability to work in ambiguous environments.
- Preferred qualifications include an advanced degree, experience productionizing quantitative models, building reusable platforms and libraries, applying AI/ML or generative AI, using distributed computing or cloud-native technologies, and mentoring technical professionals.
Benefits
- The role is intended to be performed on site in the specified location(s).
- The role is eligible for bonus or incentive opportunities in addition to the salary range.
About Charles Schwab
Charles Schwab provides brokerage, banking, and wealth management services for individual investors and independent investment advisors. Its business spans trading platforms, advisory and custody services (Schwab Advisor Services), ETFs and mutual funds, and a U.S. bank offering deposits and lending. Founded in 1971 and headquartered in Westlake, Texas, Schwab is publicly traded on the NYSE (SCHW) and expanded its retail and advisor footprint through the acquisition of TD Ameritrade.