Who We Are

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.

Your Impact

As a Desk Strat on the credit desk, you will be working directly with the firm’s Investment Grade, High Yield, Distressed Credit, Macro Credit, Financing and Systematic Market Making trading desks. You will build cutting-edge pricing, risk and quoting models, large-scale real-time risk systems, generate analytics and prediction models for capital and liquidity, and develop strategies to optimize risk management and client service.

Our Impact

Quantitative strategists are at the cutting edge of our business, solving real-world problems through a variety of analytical methods. Working in close collaboration with traders and salespeople, their invaluable quantitative perspectives on complex financial and technical challenges power our business decisions.

Responsibilities & Qualifications

Responsibilities

• Building pricing, risk and capital models for bonds and credit derivatives.
• Working directly with sales and traders on strategies to navigate rapidly changing market and risk conditions and contribute to structured credit transactions.
• Developing large scale analytics, quoting and real-time risk systems for credit products.
• Building data-driven prediction models for quoting and liquidity for various credit products.

Who We Look For

An ideal candidate would have strong quantitative and technical problem solving skills, drive to investigate and learn new ideas, and good judgement to deliver quick yet robust solutions.

Basic Qualifications

• Bachelors/MS or PhD in a quantitative field
• Applied Mathematics, Physics, Engineering, Computer Science.
• Meaningful experience in coding in an object oriented programming language
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Ability to work in a dynamic and fast-paced environment and deliver accurate results quickly.
• Ability to solve problems and to explain underlying ideal

Goldman Sachs Engineering Culture

At Goldman Sachs, our Engineers don’t just make things – we make things possible. Change the world by connecting people and capital with ideas. Solve the most challenging and pressing engineering problems for our clients. Join our engineering teams that build massively scalable software and systems, architect low latency infrastructure solutions, proactively guard against cyber threats, and leverage machine learning alongside financial engineering to continuously turn data into action. Create new businesses, transform finance, and explore a world of opportunity at the speed of markets.

Engineering is at the critical center of our business, and our dynamic environment requires innovative strategic thinking and immediate, real solutions. Want to push the limit of digital possibilities? Start here!

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