Arta
Senior Quant Research Engineer, Trading & Portfolio Optimization
$150K–$250K
Bay Area · Hybrid · Senior · Full-time · Posted Jul 23, 2026
- Experience
- 5 years of experience or strong interest from work close to markets or portfolios, such as as a quant researcher, trader, or in an advisory/PM-facing capacity.
About the job
Designs portfolio allocation models and production trading systems to manage risk, client constraints, tax efficiency, and execution costs across client portfolios.
What you'll do
- Build and improve portfolio allocation models and systems that turn allocations into trades.
- Apply portfolio optimization, risk modeling, statistical estimation, and backtesting to validate robust strategies.
- Partner with investment, product, and engineering teams to ship production systems; use AI coding tools in daily work.
What they ask for
- Strong quantitative finance background and fluency in portfolio theory, optimization, and risk.
- Strong math foundation in linear algebra, optimization, probability, and statistics.
- Strong software engineering skills to take models from research to production; comfortable across data, models, and services.
- Understanding of tax-aware investing, including tax-loss harvesting; fluency with AI coding tools.
Pay
$150,000-$250,000 (base salary)
AI focus
Use AI coding tools in day-to-day work to research and build faster.
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