Senior Quant Risk Architect | VaR, Stress Testing, AI Risk

Swissblock Technologies AG; Baar; Hybrid; CHF 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Remote-friendly culture

25 days paid leave

Performance-based annual bonus

Competitive compensation

Job summary

Swissblock Technologies AG, a private investment firm, is building risk infrastructure for traditional-financing trading groups. Senior Quantitative Risk Manager will report to the Head of Risk and collaborate with portfolio managers and engineers to shape end-to-end risk systems.

Location: Switzerland, hybrid work with up to four days remote; Baar, Zug area preference. English fluency required; German is a plus.

Qualifications

• 5+ years in quantitative or investment risk roles.
• Experience with hedge funds or multi-strategy platforms preferred.
• Strong understanding of markets and derivative products.
• Proven ability to design and implement risk frameworks.

Responsibilities

• Build the risk engine: VaR/CVaR, stress testing, scenario analysis across strategies.
• Co-design the limit framework with the Head of Risk.
• Independently validate systematic strategies.
• Own daily monitoring and escalation of market, liquidity, and counterparty risk; generate daily/monthly risk reports.
• Develop AI-assisted risk workflows with guardrails and human sign-off.
• Bring risk perspective to new products and firm-wide projects.

Skills

VaR & CVaR modeling

Python

SQL

Risk management frameworks

Stress testing

Independent validation

Quantitative analysis

Team collaboration

English fluency

Education

Master's degree in Mathematics, Engineering, Economics or Finance

PhD preferred

FRM, CFA, CQF a plus

Tools

Git

CI/CD

Job description

Swissblock Technologies AG, a private investment firm, is building risk infrastructure for traditional-financing trading groups. Senior Quantitative Risk Manager will report to the Head of Risk and collaborate with portfolio managers and engineers to shape end-to-end risk systems.

Location: Switzerland, hybrid work with up to four days remote; Baar, Zug area preference. English fluency required; German is a plus.