What are the responsibilities and job description for the Asset & Wealth Management - Quantitative Engineer - Vice President- New York position at Goldman Sachs and Careers?
What We Do
The Multi-Asset Solutions Group (MAS) within Goldman Sachs Asset & Wealth Management delivers customized portfolio solutions for institutional clients, investing across asset classes, regions, and the risk spectrum in both public and private markets. As a front-office quantitative team, MAS Analytics Strats designs and builds tools and systems that support the day-to-day management of approximately $380 billion in client assets. We generate analytics and insights to inform portfolio construction and risk management, and we enhance client experience through our class-leading Investment Dashboard, a modern digital portal.
Who We Look For
We seek an experienced quantitative developer to lead a core initiative of delivering next‑generation portfolio management tools and analytics that will scale a fast‑growing business. You will architect and ship production systems, translate investment and risk needs into robust analytics, and partner closely with portfolio managers and fellow strats to turn ideas into durable, client‑facing outcomes. The ideal candidate is intellectually curious, self‑driven, and solutions‑oriented—an independent problem solver and a collaborative teammate—who consistently goes above and beyond in achieving excellence.
Requirements
- Education: Undergraduate or graduate degree in a quantitative discipline (e.g., computer science, mathematics, engineering, statistics, physics).
- Quantitative toolkit: Working knowledge of statistics, linear algebra, numerical methods.
- Markets and instruments: Solid understanding of financial markets; hands-on experience across multiple asset classes and instruments strongly preferred (e.g., equities, rates, credit, FX, commodities, derivatives).
- Industry experience: 5 years in financial services; buy-side exposure is a strong plus.
- Software engineering: Proven experience in building and operating production systems; strong command of at least one modern programming language (Python, Java/JavaScript, C , etc), core data structures, algorithms, testing, and CI/CD.
- Open source and tooling: Prior use of open-source libraries and frameworks is a plus; willingness to learn new technologies and a demonstrated passion for using technology to solve real-world investment problems are required.
- Collaboration and communication: Ability to translate investment and risk requirements into technical specifications; clear written and verbal communication with portfolio managers, engineers, and stakeholders.
- Leadership: Demonstrated leadership in owning roadmaps, mentoring teammates, or managing small teams; managerial experience is highly valued.
- AI-enabled development: Hands-on experience with AI-assisted coding tools (e.g., code copilots, test-generation, refactoring assistants); A strong desire to learn and responsibly adopt agentic AI tools and workflows to accelerate development lifecycle.
ABOUT GOLDMAN SACHS
At Goldman Sachs, we commit our people, capital and ideas to help our clients, shareholders and the communities we serve to grow. Founded in 1869, we are a leading global investment banking, securities and investment management firm. Headquartered in New York, we maintain offices around the world.
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Salary Range
The expected base salary for this New York, New York, United States-based position is $130000-$250000. In addition, you may be eligible for a discretionary bonus if you are an active employee as of fiscal year-end.
Benefits
Goldman Sachs is committed to providing our people with valuable and competitive benefits and wellness offerings, as it is a core part of providing a strong overall employee experience. A summary of these offerings, which are generally available to active, non-temporary, full-time and part-time US employees who work at least 20 hours per week, can be found here.
We offer a wide range of health and welfare programs that vary depending on office location. These generally include medical, dental, short-term disability, long-term disability, life, accidental death, labor accident and business travel accident insurance.
We offer competitive vacation policies based on employee level and office location. We promote time off from work to recharge by providing generous vacation entitlements and a minimum of three weeks expected vacation usage each year.
We assist employees in saving and planning for retirement, offer financial support for higher education, and provide a number of benefits to help employees prepare for the unexpected. We offer live financial education and content on a variety of topics to address the spectrum of employees’ priorities.
We offer a medical advocacy service for employees and family members facing critical health situations, and counseling and referral services through the Employee Assistance Program (EAP). We provide Global Medical, Security and Travel Assistance and a Workplace Ergonomics Program. We also offer state-of-the-art on-site health centers in certain offices.
To encourage employees to live a healthy and active lifestyle, some of our offices feature on-site fitness centers. For eligible employees we typically reimburse fees paid for a fitness club membership or activity (up to a pre-approved amount).
We offer on-site child care centers that provide full-time and emergency back-up care, as well as mother and baby rooms and homework rooms. In every office, we provide advice and counseling services, expectant parent resources and transitional programs for parents returning from parental leave. Adoption, surrogacy, egg donation and egg retrieval stipends are also available.
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Opportunity Overview CORPORATE TITLE Vice President OFFICE LOCATION(S) New York JOB FUNCTION Quantitative Engineering DIVISION Asset & Wealth Management SALARY RANGE USD 130,000 - 250,000
Salary : $130,000 - $250,000