Job families at quant firms

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• Quantitative

  The research, trading and pricing seats that own signal, risk and profit attribution. Pay is the most performance-linked on the index, so the bands are deliberately wide at the top.

  6 roles priced · top band $500k – $15m (New York)

• Technology

  Software, security and systems roles building the platforms the desks trade on. The same job title pays materially more inside a trading firm than in general technology, because the work is on the revenue path rather than beside it.

  2 roles priced · top band $175k – $950k (New York)

• Data and AI

  Data acquisition, pipelines, feature stores and applied machine learning. These teams sit closest to research, and the pay structure follows research more than it follows engineering.

  3 roles priced · top band $200k – $1.5m (New York)

• Infrastructure

  Networks, hardware, colocation and reliability. Small teams, high consequence, and compensation that rewards production ownership rather than headcount.

  2 roles priced · top band $165k – $800k (New York)

• Business and operations

  Trade support, risk control, compliance, finance and talent. Bonus is a smaller share of the package than on the desks, but firm-wide profitability still lifts these seats well above the equivalent job elsewhere in finance.

  5 roles priced · top band $130k – $750k (New York)