# Quantitative Engineer at Conviction

- Company: Conviction (YC S25)
- What the company does: Anyone Can Trade. Backed by Y Combinator.
- Company website: https://convictiontrade.ai
- Type: Startups (AI role)
- Level: Mid level
- Location: San Francisco, CA, US
- Work setup: On-site
- Pay: $150K to $210K base salary per year (USD)
- Posted: 2026-09-03
- Apply by: 2026-10-18
- Apply: https://www.ycombinator.com/companies/conviction/jobs/0HkAQMH-quantitative-engineer
- Page: https://www.1752.vc/careers/jobs/conviction-quantitative-engineer/

## About the role

As a Quantitative Engineer, you will work directly with the founders to build the trading and backtesting systems that power Conviction. You’ll develop quantitative strategies, work with large financial datasets, and turn trading ideas that can be tested and deployed in production.

## What they're looking for

- Strong Python and quantitative programming skills
- Experience building or researching systematic trading strategies
- Strong understanding of statistics, probability, and quantitative methods
- Experience working with large financial or time-series datasets
- Experience designing and evaluating backtests
- Understanding of common sources of backtest error, including look-ahead bias, survivorship bias, overfitting, transaction costs, and data leakage

Tags: Engineering