Role: Researcher
Location: 5 days/week @ NYC HQ
Base salary: $200K to $325K
Equity: aggressive initial grant + annual performance-based bonuses
Moment builds next-generation trading and portfolio management technology. Our core product suite includes high-throughput market data pipelines, automated smart order routing algorithms, real-time portfolio ledgering and position tracking, and high-cardinality portfolio optimization.
Founded in 2023 by a team of quant traders and researchers from Citadel and Jane Street, we've raised over $100M in capital from Andreessen Horowitz and Index Ventures, and we now power mission critical workflows for financial institutions with over $8T+ of assets.
The Research Team at Moment works on problems like:
Running 100K+ variable portfolio optimizations in seconds.
Developing machine learning models to estimate relative value and future outperformance in fixed income securities.
Developing risk models to estimate the tracking error between portfolios.
Building AI agents to automatically perform credit research, automatically build custom portfolios, and automate other core portfolio management tasks.
You’re a quant researcher or quant trader. We are excited to interview strong candidates from outside of the quant trading industry as well.
You have a bachelor’s degree or PhD in Mathematics, Physics, Statistics, Economics, or Computer Science.
You have written production-grade code in Python.
You’re willing and able to just figure stuff out.
You are excited to work closely with customers. As a researcher at Moment, you are also your own product manager.
Fixed income quantitative research
Numerical optimization
Factor/risk models
Polars
Machine learning pipelines
Multi-modal LLMs
Health, dental, and vision coverage.
$150 monthly gym stipend.
Free lunch and dinner.
$200K to $325K base salary + initial equity grant + annual performance-based equity bonuses.
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