Quantitative Engineer, Private Markets — Equity + Onsite

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

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Benefits package

Flexible schedule

Career growth

Job summary

LeoForce, a San Francisco fintech startup, seeks a Quantitative Engineer to own models and data infrastructure for private-market pricing. You will develop complex price and valuation models for illiquid assets, engineer features, and build scalable data pipelines in a production environment.

Join a lean, high-caliber team, experiment with LLMs for data ingestion and QA, and engage directly with sophisticated financial clients. Equity is offered with a competitive base salary.

Qualifications

• Experience in quantitative finance or data-driven financial environments.
• Strong foundation in statistics, applied mathematics, financial modeling, ML or quantitative research.
• Robust programming skills and building production-grade data pipelines.
• Ability to articulate methodologies clearly to sophisticated financial clients.
• Bachelor's degree in a related field; Master’s/PhD preferred.

Responsibilities

• Build, maintain, and improve pricing and valuation models for illiquid private-market assets.
• Identify, test, and integrate new financial features and data signals.
• Develop scalable production pipelines supporting ML models and client-facing products.
• Experiment with LLMs to automate data ingestion, entity classification, and QA.
• Explain modeling choices and methodologies to clients and internal stakeholders.
• Collaborate with a small engineering team to influence architecture and roadmap.

Skills

Quantitative finance

Statistics

Machine learning

Data pipelines

Communication

Education

Bachelor's degree in Data Science/Mathematics/Statistics/Computer Science/Financial Engineering

Master's degree or PhD preferred

Job description

LeoForce, a San Francisco fintech startup, seeks a Quantitative Engineer to own models and data infrastructure for private-market pricing. You will develop complex price and valuation models for illiquid assets, engineer features, and build scalable data pipelines in a production environment.

Join a lean, high-caliber team, experiment with LLMs for data ingestion and QA, and engage directly with sophisticated financial clients. Equity is offered with a competitive base salary.