VP Risk Engineer - Front-Office Tech

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

Benefits offered by this job

Training and development opportunities

Wellness resources

Time-off benefits

Gym reimbursement

Job summary

Capstone Investment Advisors, LLC is seeking a Risk Engineer at Associate or VP level within Risk Technology. This hands-on role blends software engineering with risk analytics to design and build investment-facing risk and decision-support capabilities close to data, code and users.

You will help turn risk insights into actionable intelligence across stress scenarios and portfolio analytics. You will collaborate with Risk Managers, Portfolio Managers, Quant Research and cross‑functional teams,

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.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to investigate issues across data, models and implementation and work through problems systematically.

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

APIs

Data pipelines

Distributed systems

Communication

Problem solving

Cloud infrastructure

Machine learning exposure

Tools

Risk Technology stack

Job description

Capstone Investment Advisors, LLC is seeking a Risk Engineer at Associate or VP level within Risk Technology. This hands-on role blends software engineering with risk analytics to design and build investment-facing risk and decision-support capabilities close to data, code and users.

You will help turn risk insights into actionable intelligence across stress scenarios and portfolio analytics. You will collaborate with Risk Managers, Portfolio Managers, Quant Research and cross‑functional teams,