Senior Quantitative Researcher
Numerai is an AI-driven quantitative hedge-fund manager that crowdsources machine-learning predictions from a global data-scientist network.
Maintainer signals as of 9/25/2026
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About Numerai
Numerai GP LLC, publicly operating as Numerai, is a Delaware investment adviser headquartered in San Francisco. It manages a quantitative global-equity hedge fund whose trading Meta Model aggregates predictions submitted through its data-science tournaments. Participants can stake the Ethereum-based NMR token on predictions. Its separately identifiable offerings include the Numerai Tournament, Numerai Signals, and Numerai Crypto.
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Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will develop and evaluate alpha across market horizons and data types. You will estimate covariance and factor risk build diagnostics optimize portfolio construction and evaluate transaction costs. You will decide which data and research ideas to pursue write clear research reports productionize successful work and monitor results.
Requirements
- PhD in mathematics statistics physics EECS or a comparable quantitative field or equivalent demonstrated depth
- 7+ years of quantitative research experience
- Experience with strategies that traded real capital
- Deep knowledge of factor models risk decomposition portfolio optimization transaction cost modeling and execution
- Strong statistical judgment and knowledge of overfitting
- Excellent written communication
- Python ownership across the full workflow
Responsibilities
- Develop and evaluate alpha across horizons and data types
- Estimate covariance and factor risk
- Build diagnostics for degrading risk models
- Formulate optimization problems and design constraints
- Evaluate numerical conditioning and solver behavior
- Model transaction costs and execution
- Select data and productionize successful research
- Write research reports and monitor production results
Benefits
- Healthcare benefits
- Work-from-home flexibility
- YMCA membership
- Significant equity