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Quantitative AI and Data Analyst – Executive Director

A senior role building and validating agentic AI and LLM-based tools for a data analytics team inside Prime Brokerage and Funding Technology. The team serves trading, financing, finance and risk users across several global offices.

What you’d work on

Our reading of the posting: what a new hire in this role would most likely spend their first months on.

Build and deploy agentic AI tools that use machine learning and large language models
Design statistical tests and monitoring dashboards that track how well LLM applications perform over time
Create validation frameworks that stress models across different market conditions
Document and benchmark models for model risk teams so they pass governance review
Present results to management and mentor junior analysts

What they ask for

Required

Python
Statistics
Machine learning
Large dataset handling
Model development lifecycle
Prototyping statistical models
Clear presentation skills

Preferred

Bayesian statistics and hierarchical models
PyMC or Stan
Evaluation frameworks for LLMs
Stress testing and VaR knowledge
Prior quant, structuring or trading experience

Education: Master's or PhD in maths, statistics, physics, computer science, engineering or a related subject.
Experience: 9+ years in AI or data analytics
Languages and tools: Python
PyMC
Stan
Markets: equities, fixed-income

How to prepare

Build an evaluation harness that scores an LLM tool for accuracy and drift
Practise Bayesian modelling in PyMC with a hierarchical example on market data
Learn how model risk teams document, benchmark and explain models
Read up on VaR and stress testing so you can speak to the finance side

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