Senior Quantitative Engineer - AI-Driven Wealth Tech Remote

Seeds; United States; On-site; USD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical insurance

Dental coverage

Vision coverage

Open PTO

Remote-work flexibility

Job summary

Seeds is seeking a Senior or Staff Quantitative Engineer to build and own the optimizer at the center of the Seeds platform. Its outputs are orders; you’ll ensure correctness, precision, and alignment with constraints, risk, and business logic.

You’ll report to the CTO and work with Investments, Trading, and Product, using AI coding agents like Claude Code, and you’ll shape production-grade software through design, review, and cross-team collaboration.

Qualifications

• Senior-level experience building and shipping production quantitative software.
• Strong production engineering fundamentals and design patterns.
• Hands-on portfolio-optimization expertise and real-world risk limits.
• Working knowledge of wealth/asset-management constructs and data.
• Fluency with AI-native development and agented workflows.

Responsibilities

• Build and own the portfolio optimization engine across thousands of accounts and constraints.
• Own outcomes end to end, from ambiguity to shipped production solutions.
• Design and automate regression suites ensuring net benefits of changes.
• Diagnose optimization-specific failure modes like non-convergence and data quality issues.
• Collaborate with Investments, Trading, and Product; explain quantitative trade-offs.
• Lead by example, review code, and raise engineering standards.

Skills

Senior-level experience

Production engineering fundamentals

Numerical correctness

Cross-functional communication

AI-native development

Ownership and engineering judgment

Education

B.S./M.S./Ph.D. in Mathematics, CS, Engineering, OR Operations Research

Tools

Gurobi

MOSEK

CVXPY

Claude Code

Job description

Seeds is seeking a Senior or Staff Quantitative Engineer to build and own the optimizer at the center of the Seeds platform. Its outputs are orders; you’ll ensure correctness, precision, and alignment with constraints, risk, and business logic.

You’ll report to the CTO and work with Investments, Trading, and Product, using AI coding agents like Claude Code, and you’ll shape production-grade software through design, review, and cross-team collaboration.