Quantitative Engineer (Private Markets)

Jobot; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 300,000 - 360,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive Base Salary

Extremely Competitive Benefits

Flexible Work Schedules

Accelerated Career Growth

Job summary

Jobot in San Francisco, CA is seeking a Quantitative Engineer to own models and the data infrastructure powering private-market intelligence. You will shape pricing and valuation for illiquid assets, build production pipelines, and work directly with clients to translate complex signals into actionable insights.

The role requires strong quantitative foundations, experience with production data engineering, and collaboration with a lean engineering team.

Qualifications

• Experience in quantitative roles at trading desks, hedge funds, banks, or similarly rigorous finance environments.
• Strong background in statistics, applied math, financial modeling, machine learning, or quantitative research.
• Hands-on experience building and maintaining production data pipelines.
• Ability to articulate complex technical methodologies clearly to sophisticated financial clients.

Responsibilities

• Model development: build and improve pricing/valuation models for illiquid private-market assets.
• Feature engineering: identify/test/integrate new financial signals to drive model accuracy.
• Production pipelines: develop scalable pipelines supporting ML models and client products.
• AI innovation: experiment with LLMs to automate data ingestion and quality assurance.
• Client advisory: analyze large proprietary datasets and explain methodology to clients.
• Product ownership: collaborate with engineering to shape architecture and roadmap.

Skills

Quantitative research

Statistical modeling

Machine learning

Data pipelines

LLMs

Education

Data Science/Math/CS degree

Advanced degree preferred

Tools

Python

SQL

Spark

Job description

Quantitative Engineer (Private Markets)

Salary: $300,000 - $360,000 per year

Compensation: $300,000 – $350,000 + Equity

Location: San Francisco, CA (In-Office 4 Days/Week)

A bit about us

We are an elite, well-funded fintech startup building the foundational data, pricing, and transaction infrastructure for the global private markets. Backed by a $16M Series A from the world’s largest asset managers and investment banks, our platform tracks over $300B in proprietary transaction data and $4T in funding signals for 100,000+ companies. Based in San Francisco, our lean team thrives on technical rigor, deep engineering ownership, and solving complex, multi-trillion-dollar valuation challenges for the world's most sophisticated institutional investors.

Why join us?

• Competitive Base Salary!
• Extremely Competitive Benefits!
• Flexible Work Schedules!
• Accelerated Career Growth!

The Opportunity

This is not a traditional internal quantitative role. It is a rare opportunity to apply institutional-quality modeling to proprietary, highly unique private-market data. You will blend rigorous quantitative research with production data engineering and direct customer exposure, enjoying massive ownership within a lean, high-caliber team. As a Quantitative Engineer, you will take full ownership of the models and data infrastructure powering our flagship private-market intelligence products. A primary focus will be our predictive daily pricing engine for actively traded private companies. Because these are illiquid assets without clean, public price discovery, this work requires exceptional creativity and the ability to extract highly accurate signals from complex, imperfect datasets.

Responsibilities

• Model Development: Build, maintain, and continuously improve complex pricing and valuation models for illiquid private-market assets.
• Feature Engineering: Identify, test, and integrate new financial features and data signals to drive model accuracy.
• Production Pipelines: Develop and optimize scalable production data pipelines that support machine learning models and client‑facing products.
• AI Innovation: Experiment with Large Language Models (LLMs) to automate and scale data ingestion, entity classification, and automated quality assurance.
• Client Advisory: Analyze massive proprietary datasets to deliver clear insights and join select technical conversations to explain methodology directly to sophisticated financial clients.
• Product Ownership: Collaborate closely with a tight‑knit engineering team to materially shape the technical architecture and product roadmap.

Key Requirements

• Financial Rigor: Previous quantitative experience at a trading desk, hedge fund, investment bank, or a similarly rigorous, data-driven financial environment.
• Mathematical Foundation: Strong background in statistics, applied mathematics, financial modeling, machine learning, or quantitative research.
• Technical Stack & Data Engineering: Robust programming skills with hands‑on experience building and maintaining production‑grade data pipelines.
• Communication Skills: Ability to articulate complex technical methodologies and modeling choices clearly to highly sophisticated financial clients.
• Education: Degree in Data Science, Mathematics, Statistics, Computer Science, Financial Engineering, or a closely related field. A Master’s degree or PhD is strongly preferred.
• Location: Must be based in or willing to relocate to San Francisco, working on‑site in the office four days per week.

Additional Information

Why This Role is Compelling Instead of maintaining a fractional component of a mature, legacy public‑market trading system, you will have end‑to‑end ownership over the models, signals, and pipelines defining a completely new asset class infrastructure. Backed by top‑tier institutional investors, this role provides the technical depth of a top hedge fund with the high‑upside equity and velocity of an elite San Francisco startup.

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