Risk Engineer: Front‑Office Risk Tech Leader

Capstoneinvestmentadvisors; New York (NY); On-site; USD 160,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Training and development opportunities

Wellness resources (physical, mental,

Time-off

Gym reimbursement

Job summary

Capstone Investment Advisors, LLC is seeking a Risk Engineer at Associate or VP level to design and build investment-facing risk and decision-support capabilities. You will stay close to code, data and users from problem to production, shaping Capstone’s Risk Intelligence platform.

You will collaborate with Risk Managers, Portfolio Managers, Quant Research and technology teams to deliver cross-asset risk features, APIs and data pipelines, supporting hedging, position sizing and capital

Qualifications

• 3–8 years of relevant experience in software engineering, quantitative development or risk technology within a hedge fund, asset manager, investment bank or comparable capital‑markets environment.
• Experience building and supporting production software, ideally within risk, pricing, trading or other front‑office applications.
• Strong Python / Java and SQL skills, together with experience in another object‑oriented language; familiarity with APIs, databases, data pipelines and distributed systems.
• Good understanding of derivatives and risk analytics, including some combination of option pricing, Greeks, scenario analysis, stress testing or VaR.

Responsibilities

• Build and enhance production-grade components of Capstone’s Risk Technology platform, with a focus on performance, reliability, scalability and usability.
• Develop cross-asset risk capabilities spanning Greeks and sensitivities, stress scenarios, VaR, P&L vectors and attribution, limits, factor analytics, margin and exposure aggregation.
• Work directly with Portfolio Managers, Risk Managers and Quant Research to understand investment and risk problems and translate them into effective technical solutions.
• Build APIs, data pipelines and interactive decision tools that help users understand what changed, what drove it and what action to consider at trade, POD, strategy and fund level.
• Translate pricing and risk methodologies into robust production implementations, with appropriate treatment of model assumptions, calibration, validation and controls.
• Contribute to Capstone’s Risk Intelligence strategy by building tools that turn research, risk analytics and AI into practical investment insight.
• Develop and support resilient risk services, integrating positions, market and reference data and internal or third-party analytics, with strong testing, monitoring and data quality controls.
• Collaborate with engineers across Technology, Data and AI, contributing to design reviews, code reviews, engineering standards and the ongoing development of the Risk Technology platform.

Skills

Python

Java

SQL

Derivatives

Risk analytics

APIs

Databases

Data pipelines

Distributed systems

Communication

Tools

APIs

Databases

Data pipelines

Distributed systems

Job description

Capstone Investment Advisors, LLC is seeking a Risk Engineer at Associate or VP level to design and build investment-facing risk and decision-support capabilities. You will stay close to code, data and users from problem to production, shaping Capstone’s Risk Intelligence platform.

You will collaborate with Risk Managers, Portfolio Managers, Quant Research and technology teams to deliver cross-asset risk features, APIs and data pipelines, supporting hedging, position sizing and capital