Senior FX Quant Scientist - Production-Ready Risk & Hedging

Stripe, Inc.; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 180,000 - 280,000; Full time

Job summary

Stripe, Inc. is seeking a senior quantitative lead for FX within Treasury Finance Data Science in New York. You will shape methodology, write production-quality code, and deploy models that help measure and hedge FX exposure across multiple currencies.

This hands-on role requires collaboration with Treasury, FX hedging, Finance, and Engineering to drive risk strategy and reliable outputs. The position emphasizes building scalable, production-ready systems and leveraging AI tools to accelerate

Qualifications

• PhD with 1-3 years, MS or MA with 2-6 years, or BS or BA with 4-8 years of data science or quantitative modeling experience
• Hands-on quantitative experience at a bank, asset manager, hedge fund, trading firm, or similar financial institution
• Strong foundation in statistics, probability, and time-series modeling, plus risk measures knowledge (VaR, ES) and hedging instruments
• Proficiency in Python and SQL with production-quality code
• Experience taking models or analytic systems from research into production
• Business acumen to turn analyses into decision-ready insights

Responsibilities

• Partner with FX team to measure exposure across entities and currencies, VaR, ES, stress testing
• Develop forecasting models for FX exposures and multi-currency cash flows
• Co-design hedge optimization and decision frameworks with FX team
• Build ML and statistical systems for trading and risk from prototype to production
• Own production systems that generate FX outputs with reliability and monitoring
• Collaborate with Treasury Finance stakeholders to turn business questions into quantitative frameworks
• Produce clear analyses and reporting for leadership decisions, including MBRs/QBRs
• Explore AI tooling to speed up modeling and validation while ensuring rigor

Skills

Python

SQL

Statistical modeling

FX risk

AI tools

Communication

Production code

Project management

Education

PhD

MS

BS

Tools

Spark

Airflow

Flyte

Git

Job description

Stripe, Inc. is seeking a senior quantitative lead for FX within Treasury Finance Data Science in New York. You will shape methodology, write production-quality code, and deploy models that help measure and hedge FX exposure across multiple currencies.

This hands-on role requires collaboration with Treasury, FX hedging, Finance, and Engineering to drive risk strategy and reliable outputs. The position emphasizes building scalable, production-ready systems and leveraging AI tools to accelerate