🧮Quant Developer
Ships the model, the back-test, and the production guardrails.
Sourced from 6 recent JDs · snapshot taken 2026-06-20
What this role pays — by city, years & skill stack
Illustrative ranges — calibrated from Levels.fyi, Glassdoor and Robert Half wealth-tech guides. Real offers vary widely by firm, equity, and team. Use this to compare cities & skill stacks, not as a quote.
The same four lenses we use on every capability and skill page.
Comprehensive financial planning
2 operationsGoal modeling (retirement, education, large purchase)
annualPer-goal probability of success with sensitivity to savings rate, retirement age, and return assumptions.
Monte Carlo / probability of success
annualStochastic projection with both deterministic and Monte Carlo views; clients see ranges, not point estimates.
Friday — the factor model drifted again
Your factor model looks great on a back-test and wobbles in prod. You add a reconciliation step between sim and live fills, refit on the trailing 60 days, and design an agent that flags drift when the residual jumps a threshold.
Top skills for this role
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How this role evolves
As advisor-facing agents mature, the work splits into judgment humans keep and execution agents own.
- →Model intuition
- →Live-vs-sim reconciliation
- →Risk guardrails
- →Back-test execution
- →Drift monitoring
- →Feature-engineering drafts
Builds the benchmark suite that proves a wealth AI doesn't hallucinate around money.
How to land — and survive — as a Quant Developer
- Step 1 · Free · play nowRun the Skill DNA drill — see where you stand on ML for portfolio analyticsHands-on drill
A fast, scenario-based self-assessment. Replayable, no signup, 5–10 minutes. Different from the multiple-choice quizzes further down the page.
- Step 2 · Premium · full playbookQuant Developer playbook (preview)
Hand-curated checklists, real templates, and the failure modes nobody documents — see the first 30% free.
Preview - Step 3 · 1:1 · operator sessionMock interview with an operator
30-minute 1:1: role-specific case prompts, portfolio review, and offer-negotiation talk-track.
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Drills, quizzes, vendor matrix, industry map, and reads — all in one place.