Is New York a good place to work as a quant?

New York concentrates multi-strategy hedge funds, systematic managers and the research arms of the largest proprietary trading firms. Hiring skews toward quantitative research, machine learning and data engineering rather than pure latency work, which sits more heavily in Chicago and Amsterdam. We use New York as the reference point for our own pay index, because firms we track commonly quote other cities relative to it. That is our modelling basis rather than a measured global ranking.

Demand concentrates in quant research, systematic trading, quant dev, ml, data. The employers our desk tracks in the market are jane-street, citadel, two-sigma, de-shaw, millennium, point72, hrt, running statistical arbitrage, systematic macro, ml-driven alpha, multi-strategy.

Right to work: H-1B, O-1 and L-1 are the routes usually discussed for these roles, and many firms also recruit juniors through campus pipelines. Eligibility and timing depend on the route and the employer, so check the current official US guidance and ask the employer which route it would use.