Rank #9 · Strong / niche opportunity
Small, high-quality market concentrated in systematic funds and commodities.
What is the quant market like in Zurich / Geneva?
3 quant-classified roles are open in Zurich / Geneva right now across 3 employers, read from their own career pages. Small, high-quality market concentrated in systematic funds and commodities. Main demand is in systematic funds, commodities, private capital, and compensation sits at roughly 90% of the New York benchmark for the equivalent role and seniority.
KnowQuant research deskUpdated 1 September 20268 live vacancies in Zurich / Geneva from 3 employersMethod 2026.1
Counted from employer career pages, not job boards. These figures move as desks open and close roles, so the split below reflects the employers we track in Zurich / Geneva rather than the whole market or an annual survey.
Live vacancies
8
Every open role we track in Zurich / Geneva
Quant-index roles
3
Roles that meet our quant classification rules
Employers hiring
3
Distinct firms with an open seat here
Read live from each employer's own career page. Last full refresh September 2026. Compensation figures on this page are modelled and dated separately from these counts.
Modelled total compensation quoted in CHF. The range spans every seniority we model for the role. The reference estimate is a separately configured modelled figure for the role, not the middle of that range and not an observed median.
| Role | Range | Modelled reference estimate |
|---|---|---|
| Quant Researcher | CHF 182k – CHF 2.0m | CHF 376k |
| Quant Trader | CHF 158k – CHF 2.4m | CHF 356k |
| Quant Developer | CHF 143k – CHF 950k | CHF 269k |
| Quant Analyst | CHF 99k – CHF 554k | CHF 182k |
| HFT / Low-Latency Engineer | CHF 158k – CHF 1.1m | CHF 305k |
| Systematic Portfolio Manager | CHF 396k – CHF 12m | CHF 990k |
| Software Engineer | CHF 139k – CHF 752k | CHF 242k |
| Machine Learning Engineer | CHF 158k – CHF 1.2m | CHF 309k |
| Data Engineer | CHF 131k – CHF 673k | CHF 226k |
| Data Scientist | CHF 119k – CHF 491k | CHF 194k |
| Site Reliability Engineer | CHF 131k – CHF 634k | CHF 222k |
| Network and Infrastructure Engineer | CHF 119k – CHF 554k | CHF 198k |
| Security Engineer | CHF 127k – CHF 634k | CHF 218k |
| Trading Operations Analyst | CHF 75k – CHF 396k | CHF 139k |
| Risk Manager | CHF 103k – CHF 594k | CHF 190k |
| Compliance Officer | CHF 87k – CHF 515k | CHF 162k |
| Fund Finance and Accounting | CHF 79k – CHF 594k | CHF 158k |
| Technical Recruiter | CHF 75k – CHF 475k | CHF 147k |
Rankings, compensation and hiring firms for each discipline traded in Zurich / Geneva.
Direct answers, each one tied to the Zurich / Geneva figures on this page.
Modelled total compensation for a quantitative researcher in Zurich / Geneva runs CHF 182k – CHF 2.0m across the seniorities we model (CHF), which is about 90% of the New York benchmark for the same role and seniority. Every other role is priced in the table above.
2 of the firms we track run a Zurich / Geneva desk, including Millennium Management, Man Group. Each firm profile lists the desks it staffs locally and the disciplines it recruits for.
Systematic funds, commodities, private capital. The strategies concentrated here are systematic funds, commodities, risk / allocation, which shapes both the skills desks screen for and the pay dispersion between them.
Zurich / Geneva is one of the 17 hub markets we price, and on the roles we currently track it shows strong / niche advertised demand. That is our own editorial read of tracked vacancies, not a global ranking of opportunity. Compare the pay index of 90 against local tax and cost of living, and check current official guidance on visas and tax, before treating a headline number as an improvement.
Live roles are read from employer career pages and refreshed continuously. The pay bands carry method 2026.1, last reviewed September 2026, and are frozen each quarter as a dated edition you can cite.
Both, and they are labelled. Where an advert states pay we use the stated figure. Where it does not, the band is modelled from publicly reported compensation data and role benchmarking, and shown as a range rather than a single number.
Each one is a standalone page with the working shown, kept in step with the figures above.
Zurich / Geneva ranks #9 of 17 in our quant hiring index, rated strong / niche for opportunity, with a quant researcher median of CHF 376k.
In Zurich / Geneva our desk tracks hiring at man-group, millennium, across systematic funds, commodities, risk / allocation.
Pay, tax drag and hiring depth for Zurich / Geneva set against the markets it is most often weighed against.
KnowQuant Quant Compensation Benchmark, Q3 2026 edition, method 2026.1. https://www.know-quant.com/markets/zurich
Free to quote and republish with attribution and a link to the source page, under our terms. Method 2026.1, last reviewed 1 September 2026. The methodology sets out how each band is built and what it excludes.
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Figures are expressed as annual total compensation (base salary plus expected performance bonus) in the reference market's local currency, converted from a US dollar base. They describe typical market ranges rather than any individual offer, and exclude sign-on payments, deferred equity and carried interest. Portfolio-manager figures reflect formulaic profit-share arrangements and are therefore far more dispersed than any other role.
KnowQuantIndex 2026.1 · Updated September 2026
Modelled bands describe the market, not an individual offer. Where an employer states pay, the stated figure is used and labelled as such.
Zurich / Geneva market report · KnowQuant 2026.1