Quant Engineer

The Capital Group is looking for qualifying candidates to join our firm. Alongside quantitative researchers in the Investment Group, you will be working on engineering financial quantitative models and portfolio construction optimization strategies that are used for various investment management activities.  We value integrity, client focus, diverse perspectives, long term, and community. If you share these values, we would like to meet you! 

“I can succeed as a Quant Engineer at Capital Group.” 

The Quant Engineer based in downtown Los Angeles or Irvine, CA partners with quantitative researchers and technology teams to design, engineer, build, test, and maintain complex quantitative models that are used for various investment management activities. Strong engineering and quantitative skills, ability to translate complex quantitative models into working software, robust experimental approach to validate the models, ability to quickly understand capital markets (equity and fixed income), modern portfolio theory, various market data sources, industry standard portfolio risk models, learn new technologies and business areas are essential. You will also be responsible for modeling complex problems, discovering insights, and identifying opportunities using statistics, algorithms, and data mining. 

“I am the person Capital Group is looking for.” 

• Advanced Degree preferred in Computer Science, Mathematics, or related fields. 

• At least 3-5 years of experience in an analyst or development role working with quantitative researchers or data scientists to experiment, design, build and test quantitative models and help transform them into technology solutions. 

• Analytical and problem-solving skills. 

• Experience in quantitative tools like R, Python, MATLAB, etc. 

• Ability to translate business objectives into quantitative models, establish hypothesis and design robust experimental approaches to validate them. 

• Excellent communication skills, both verbal and written. 

• Data analysis skills using tools like SQL is a plus 

• Experience with cloud technologies is a plus.