Quantitative Engineering

Overview

What We Do

At Goldman Sachs, we connect people, capital and ideas to help solve problems for our clients. We are a leading global financial services firm providing investment banking, securities and investment management services to a substantial and diversified client base that includes corporations, financial institutions, governments and individuals.

The External Investing Group ("XIG") provides investors with investment and advisory solutions across leading private equity funds, hedge fund managers, real estate managers, public equity strategies, and fixed income strategies. XIG manages globally diversified programs, targeted sector-specific strategies, customized portfolios, and a range of advisory services. Our investors access opportunities through new fund commitments, fund-of-fund investments, strategic partnerships, secondary-market investments, co-investments, and seed-capital investments.

With over 350 professionals across 11 offices around the world, XIG provides manager diligence, portfolio construction, risk management, and liquidity solutions to investors, drawing on Goldman Sachs  market insights and risk management expertise. We extend these global capabilities to the world s leading sovereign wealth funds, pension plans, governments, financial institutions, endowments, foundations, and family offices, for which we invest or advise on over $300 billion of alternative investments, public equity strategies, and fixed income strategies.

Within Asset Management, Strategists (also known as “Strats”) play important roles in research, valuation, portfolio construction, and risk management analytics. A Strategist will apply quantitative and analytical methods to come up with solutions that are accurate, robust, and scalable. Strats are innovators and problem-solvers, building novel and creative solutions for manager selection, portfolio construction, and risk management. You will develop advanced computational models, architectures, and applications to meet the challenges of a rapidly growing and evolving business.

Strats collaborate across the business to develop solutions. These daily interactions with other team members across geographies demand an ability to communicate clearly about complex financial, business, and mathematical concepts. We look for creative collaborators who evolve, adapt to change, and thrive in a fast-paced global environment.

The role involves applying quantitative and analytical methods to develop solutions for manager selection, portfolio construction, and risk management. You will build and refine computational models, architectures, and applications to support a growing business and collaborate with colleagues across geographies to communicate complex financial and mathematical concepts clearly.

• Outstanding background in a quantitative discipline, with excellent analytical, quantitative, and problem-solving skills, and demonstrated abilities in research and data visualization
• Programming expertise in a scripting language (e.g. Python, R, Matlab)
• Strong general and technical communication skills, with an ability to effectively articulate complex financial and mathematical concepts
• Creativity and problem-solving skills
• Ability to work independently and in a team environment
• 3+ years of applicable experience

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, from our training and development opportunities and firmwide networks to benefits, wellness and personal finance offerings and mindfulness programs.

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