Principal Quant & Data Science Lead

Job Description

Alt, backed by leaders at Stripe, Coinbase, Seven Seven Six, and pro athletes like Tom Brady and Giannis Antetokounmpo, is seeking a Principal Quant & Data Science Lead to own the pricing engine that sets Alt Value across millions of cards and future asset classes. This role involves building Bloomberg Fair-Value for collectibles, architecting models, production pipelines, and monitoring to turn messy auction data into live data.What This Role Involves:

• Building the price engine using time-series and tree-based models.
• Hardening the data layer by ingesting and reconciling auction feeds and marketplace listings.
• Shipping to production with model orchestration using Airflow.
• Conducting quantitative R&D to test market microstructure effects.
• Exposing Alt Value as a public API and delivering dashboards.
• Leading and mentoring a small team of DS/MLEs.

What Alt is Looking For:

• 9+ years in quantitative finance, ML engineering, or similar.
• Deep time-series and forecasting experience.
• Proven path from Jupyter to production with CI/CD, testing, and automated monitoring.
• Track record of improving MAE or PnL with models in live systems.
• Fluency in Python, SQL, and modern data tooling.
• Strong communication skills.

What Alt Offers:

• Founder-level impact on a green-field pricing platform.
• $200 / month remote-work stipend.
• $100 / month wellness stipend.
• WeWork access.
• Flexible PTO and generous parental leave.
• Premium health, dental, vision, and HSA.
• 401(k).
• Equity.