Senior Quant Research Engineer, Trading & Portfolio Optimization
Arta FinanceBase Salary
$180k - $300k/yr
Responsibilities
- Design, build, and improve target portfolio allocation models balancing risk, return, and client-specific constraints.
- Build and maintain systems that translate target allocations into tax-efficient, cost-aware trades, including tax-loss harvesting.
- Apply portfolio management, optimization, factor-based risk modeling, and statistical estimation techniques.
- Backtest and validate models and trading logic against historical data before live deployment.
- Provide investment and portfolio-management judgment on system and modeling tradeoffs.
- Partner with investment, product, and engineering teams to turn investment ideas into production-quality systems.
- Use AI coding tools in day-to-day research and development.
Requirements
- At least five years of experience or strong interest developed through work close to markets or portfolios, such as quant research, trading, or advisory and portfolio-management-facing work.
- Strong background in quantitative finance, including portfolio theory, optimization, and risk.
- Strong foundation in linear algebra, optimization, probability, and statistics.
- Strong software engineering skills and the ability to take models from research through production.
- Ability to work across data, models, and quantitative-system services.
- Understanding of tax-aware investing concepts such as tax-loss harvesting.
- Fluency with AI coding tools and a record of using them to improve speed and quality.
- Excellent communication, problem-solving, ownership, independence, and comfort with ambiguity.
Benefits
- Hybrid work arrangement.
- Robust health insurance for employees and families.
- High deductible health plan with health savings account contribution.
- 20 weeks of parental leave.
- 17 days of annual paid time off.
- Opportunities for growth and advancement.
- At least one in-person interview is required before an offer decision; remote candidates may be asked to visit the Mountain View headquarters.
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About Arta Finance
Arta is an AI-driven wealth and financial technology company headquartered in the United States and Singapore. We empower individuals to access sophisticated wealth opportunities directly and to engage with their portfolios through intuitive, intelligent technology. That remains core to who we are. We tailor these capabilities to professional advisors and institutions. Advisors use Arta’s AI and wealth platform to enhance preparation, research, and client servicing. Institutions deploy our AI, infrastructure, and curated investment marketplace to elevate existing wealth propositions or introduce new ones efficiently. High-quality financial intelligence and investment access should be available to millions more people, not just the traditional elite. Extending our platform through advisors and institutions brings this to a wider audience. Individuals remain at the center, now supported by a broader ecosystem around them. Arta is a US SEC-registered investment advisor and holds a CMS license from the Monetary Authority of Singapore. We are backed by Peak XV, Ribbit Capital, Coatue, and EDBI, together with over 140 leaders from technology and finance including Ralph Hamers, Piyush Gupta, Sundar Pichai, Eric Schmidt, Michael Miebach, and Lip-Bu Tan. To learn more, visit artafinance.com and arta.ai See disclosures here: https://artafinance.com/disclosures