Researcher

Quick Facts

• Role: Researcher
• Location: 5 days/week @ NYC HQ
• Base salary: $200K to $325K
• Equity: aggressive initial grant + annual performance-based bonuses

About Moment

Moment is building the operating system for investment management. The company’s platform brings trading, operations, and infrastructure workflows into one unified system for financial institutions.

Founded by former quants from Citadel Securities and Jane Street, Moment launched publicly in 2024 and now supports institutions managing more than $10T in assets.

Moment has raised $56M in funding from leading investors including Index Ventures, Andreessen Horowitz, and Lightspeed. Its most recent $36M Series B was led by Index.

The Research Team At Moment Works On Problems Like

• Running 100K+ variable portfolio optimizations in seconds.
• Developing machine learning models to estimate relative value and future outperformance in fixed income securities.
• Developing risk models to estimate the tracking error between portfolios.
• Building AI agents to automatically perform credit research, automatically build custom portfolios, and automate other core portfolio management tasks.

You're a good fit if…

• You’re a quant researcher or quant trader. We are excited to interview strong candidates from outside of the quant trading industry as well.
• You have a bachelor’s degree or PhD in Mathematics, Physics, Statistics, Economics, or Computer Science.
• You have written production-grade code in Python.
• You’re willing and able to just figure stuff out.
• You are excited to work closely with customers. As a researcher at Moment, you are also your own product manager.

Even Better If You Have Experience With…

• Fixed income quantitative research
• Numerical optimization
• Factor/risk models
• Polars
• Machine learning pipelines
• Multi-modal LLMs

Benefits

• Health, dental, and vision coverage.
• $150 monthly gym stipend.
• Free lunch and dinner.

Compensation

$200K to $325K base salary + initial equity grant + annual performance-based equity bonuses.