Quantitative Engineering, Risk Economics Strats, Dallas, Associate

Quantitative Engineering, Risk Economics Strats, Dallas, Associate Job Description

Risk Engineering, which is part of the Risk Division, is a central part of the Goldman Sachs risk management framework, with primary responsibility to provide robust metrics, data-driven insights, and effective technologies for risk management. Risk Engineering is staffed globally with offices including Salt Lake City, Dallas, New Jersey, New York, London, Warsaw, Bengaluru, Singapore, and Tokyo. As a member of Risk Engineering, you will interface with a variety of divisions around the firm as well as the other regional offices.

The interaction with numerous departments and the diverse projects that ensue allow for a challenging, varied and multi-dimensional work environment.

The Risk Economics Strats (RES) team is a central part of the Goldman Sachs risk management framework with primary responsibility for:

• developing macroeconomic and financial scenarios for firm‑wide scenario‑based risk management;
• developing and implementing statistical models for credit loss forecasting, business‑as‑usual risk management and regulatory stress testing requirements;
• analyzing large datasets of risk metrics to extract valuable insights about the firm’s exposures.

To fulfill these objectives, Risk Economics Strats interface with a wide array of divisional, finance and risk management groups across the firm. The cross‑disciplinary nature of the projects that RES engages in makes for a challenging and multifaceted work environment.

RES professionals are part of the value proposition of the firm, and we balance our key functional responsibility of control and risk management with that of being commercial. RES has strong traditions of risk management, data analytics and career development opportunities for our people.

• Programming Languages
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  Proficiency in Python (preferred) and/or Java/Scala. Familiarity with SQL for data manipulation.
• ML/AI Frameworks
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  Familiar with latest LLM, RAG, agentic AI frameworks.
• Data Engineering
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  Strong grasp of data processing pipelines, especially with tools like SNS, SQS, Step Functions, Lambda, RDS
• APIs and Microservices
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  Proven experience building and consuming RESTful APIs; knowledge of FastAPI or Flask.
• Model Deployment
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  Familiarity with MLOps tools and patterns for deploying, monitoring, and versioning models (e.g., MLflow, Sage Maker).
• Cloud Experience
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  Hands‑on with AWS (S3, Lambda, Sage Maker, RDS) or equivalent cloud platforms (Azure/GCP).
• Infrastructure as Code
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  Working knowledge of CI/CD pipelines, Docker, Git, and infrastructure tools like Terraform or AWS CDK.
• Understanding of credit scoring, risk modeling, and financial statement analysis.
• Familiarity with private and public credit data sources (e.g., Capital
  
  IQ, Reorg, iLevel).
• Experience working with structured and unstructured financial data (e.g., PDFs, loan agreements, news articles).

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.

We believe who you are makes you better at what you do. We're committed to fostering and advancing diversity and inclusion in our own workplace and beyond by ensuring every individual within our firm has a number of opportunities to grow professionally and personally.

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.

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