Amaltash Principal Quant Researcher San Francisco, CA · Full time Company website

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Amaltash is an AI-powered algorithmic trading infrastructure platform built by Rainbow Labs Inc. We’re transforming how wealth managers, hedge funds, and RIAs access institutional-grade quantitative strategies. Our marketplace connects sophisticated algorithmic strategies — backtested, validated, and ready to deploy — directly to portfolio managers through seamless brokerage integrations across US and Indian markets. Think of us as the bridge between cutting-edge quant research and the advisors who manage real capital. We’re backed by a growing community of strategy creators (including top university quant teams) and are scaling rapidly across the wealth management ecosystem. Headquartered in San Francisco, we’re a lean, high-velocity team building the future of democratized alpha.

About Amaltash

Amaltash is building an AI-native wealth platform. People describe an investing idea in plain English; our agents turn it into rules-based code that runs in an isolated environment, with risk rules that can move a portfolio to cash, gold or T-bills when volatility rises. Every strategy shows exactly how it is built. We are a small team in San Francisco. Our customers are people like us: engineers, product managers and leaders who invest their own money.

Amaltash Advisors LLC is an SEC-registered investment adviser; registration does not imply a certain level of skill or training. Brokerage, custody and trade execution are provided by Alpaca Securities LLC, member FINRA and SIPC. We are backed by investors including IDEO Labs, Balaji Srinivasan and Plug and Play.

The role

Lead our research into the indicators and risk rules behind every strategy, and set the standard for how we test them.

What you will do

• Lead the research agenda for volatility, regime and risk indicators.
• Set the validation standard every strategy must meet before it reaches a client.
• Mentor quant researchers and review their work.

What you bring (10+ years)

• A PhD in mathematics, statistics, physics or a related field.
• 10+ years in quant research at a fund, bank or trading firm.
• Published, patented or production research you can show us.

Big bonus

• You work, or have worked, in fintech, wealth management, brokerage or trading.
• You invest your own money and have used Wealthfront, Betterment, Robinhood or similar, and wanted more control than they give you.

Pay

$260K - $350K / yr base, plus equity. Hybrid, San Francisco, California, United States.

How to apply

Apply on this page, then email [email protected] with the subject "Principal Quant Researcher" and short answers to:

1. What is the best technical project you have built? Send a link we can open: a live product, a repo or a write-up.
2. Any open-source work? Link the repos or merged pull requests.
3. Your GitHub profile.
4. What is the best use of AI you have shipped or relied on that you have not heard anyone else describe?
5. What are you most proud of, and why?
6. Which investing tools do you use today (Wealthfront, Betterment, Robinhood, a spreadsheet), and what do they get wrong for you?