Senior Quant Research Engineer - Portfolio Optimization & Trading

Arta Finance; San Francisco (CA); Hybrid; USD 160,000 - 300,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Health insurance

HDHP + HSA

20 weeks parental leave

17 days PTO

Growth opportunities

Job summary

Arta Finance is seeking a senior quant research engineer to design models for portfolio allocations and the logic that translates them into trades at scale. The role blends quantitative theory with practical, production-grade software to support thousands of client portfolios.

You will collaborate with investment leadership, product, and engineering teams, applying optimization, risk modeling, and tax-aware strategies while utilizing AI coding tools to accelerate development in a fast-paced

Qualifications

• 5 years of hands-on experience close to markets or portfolios as a quant researcher, trader, or PM-facing capacity
• Strong quantitative finance background with fluency in portfolio theory, optimization, and risk
• Rigorous math foundation: linear algebra, optimization, probability and statistics
• Strong software engineering skills to bring a model to production
• Comfort across data, models, and services in a quantitative system
• Understanding of tax-aware investing concepts such as tax-loss harvesting
• Fluency with AI coding tools to work faster and higher quality
• Excellent communication skills with investment leadership and cross-functional partners

Responsibilities

• Design and build models for target portfolio allocations balancing risk and return
• Translate target allocations into real trades with tax-efficient and cost-aware execution
• Apply risk management techniques to keep strategies robust amid market changes
• Backtest and validate new models against historical data before live deployment
• Bring investment perspective to tradeoffs beyond pure numerical optimization
• Collaborate with investment, product, and engineering teams to ship production systems
• Leverage AI coding tools to accelerate research and development

Skills

Quant research

Portfolio theory

Optimization

Software engineering

Tax-aware investing

AI coding tools

Communication

Startup environment

Job description

Arta Finance is seeking a senior quant research engineer to design models for portfolio allocations and the logic that translates them into trades at scale. The role blends quantitative theory with practical, production-grade software to support thousands of client portfolios.

You will collaborate with investment leadership, product, and engineering teams, applying optimization, risk modeling, and tax-aware strategies while utilizing AI coding tools to accelerate development in a fast-paced