Senior Quant Research Engineer, Trading & Portfolio Optimization
Arta Finance3 months ago
Base 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.
Categories
BackendData Science
About Arta Finance
Arta Finance builds an AI-driven wealth platform that gives individuals access to automated investment strategies, alternative assets, and private-market opportunities, while equipping advisors and institutions with research tools and a curated investment marketplace. Its business model combines investment-advisory fees with enterprise partnerships. Founded in 2021 and headquartered in Mountain View, California, Arta operates in the U.S. and Singapore and is an SEC-registered investment adviser with a CMS license from the Monetary Authority of Singapore.