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Quantitative AI Strategist

DRW
🇺🇸New YorkMediorFull-time$175k–$250kPosted March 11, 2026

About the Role

A front-office role at the intersection of quantitative finance, AI, and product development, focused on building and evolving the firm's AI-powered research and analytics platform. You will work directly with trading desks to understand their workflows, build quantitative and AI capabilities to generate better ideas and make better decisions, and partner with software engineers to deliver production-quality solutions. The role provides broad exposure across asset classes, desks, and problem types — from signal generation and backtesting to risk analysis and research analytics — while working at the frontier of applying AI to quantitative finance.

Requirements

  • Background in quantitative finance, financial engineering, applied mathematics, statistics, physics, computer science, or a related technical field
  • 3–7 years’ experience in a front-office quant, strategist, or quantitative research role, ideally with exposure to multiple asset classes
  • Solid understanding of financial markets, pricing/risk methodologies, and PnL attribution
  • Experience building or contributing to internal analytics platforms or tools used by traders and researchers
  • Experience with signal generation, backtesting, or systematic strategy development
  • Strong programming skills in Python
  • Familiarity with Git and collaborative development workflows
  • Familiarity with AI technologies and their application to quantitative workflows is a strong plus
  • Experience building AI agents is a strong plus
  • Excellent communication skills — able to engage directly with trading desks to understand their needs, formalize them into quantitative specifications, and collaborate effectively with software engineers
  • Strong problem-solving ability, intellectual curiosity, and comfort working across team boundaries in a fast-paced trading environment
  • Strong ability to quickly learn and adapt to new technologies — particularly important given the rapid pace of development in AI

What You'll Get

  • $175k–$250k base salary
  • Group medical insurance
  • Pharmacy insurance
  • Dental insurance
  • Vision insurance
  • 401k (with discretionary employer match)
  • Short and long-term disability
  • Life and AD&D insurance
  • Health savings accounts
  • Flexible spending accounts