Research

Moment

Moment

Software Engineering
USD 200k-325k / year + Equity
Posted on Apr 6, 2026

Location

Moment HQ

Employment Type

Full time

Location Type

On-site

Department

Engineering

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 builds next-generation trading and portfolio management technology. Our core product suite includes high-throughput market data pipelines, automated smart order routing algorithms, real-time portfolio ledgering and position tracking, and high-cardinality portfolio optimization.

Founded in 2023 by a team of quant traders and researchers from Citadel and Jane Street, we've raised over $56M in capital from Andreessen Horowitz, Index Ventures, and Lightspeed Venture Partners and now power mission critical workflows for financial institutions with over $8T+ of assets.

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.