The Financial Engineering team serves as the center of excellence for quantitative research and artificial intelligence within Swiss Life Asset Managers' portfolio management. We are responsible for designing and analyzing systematic investment strategies, security selection models, hedging approaches, and advanced portfolio construction and optimization techniques. Our work includes developing quantitative forecasting models to enhance the investment process and support strategic portfolio optimization. The team collaborates closely with portfolio managers throughout both the analytical and implementation phases of each strategy. In addition, we advise institutional clients on portfolio optimization within client-specific constraints as part of our asset-liability management services. Beyond research and advisory, we also develop AI-driven applications that are deployed across the organization to improve efficiency and decision-making. You will have the unique opportunity to grow professionally by developing new skills, learning about other fields, and collaborating with a new team. You will be at the forefront of building exciting solutions for our company and making an essential contribution in connecting the dots across our divisions. We welcome applications from recent graduates and early-career professionals eager to develop expertise across quantitative finance, AI, and engineering. In this interdisciplinary and challenging environment, we are looking for a motivated Quantitative Developer (f/m/d, 100%).This role corresponds to a Quantitative Data, Software & AI Engineer profile, combining strong software and data engineering ownership with applied AI and close collaboration with quantitative research.

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Experience


Strong Assets (Preferred but Not Required)

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Quantitative Developer (f/m/d)

Zürich

Full time

The Financial Engineering team serves as the center of excellence for quantitative research and artificial intelligence within Swiss Life Asset Managers' portfolio management.

We are responsible for designing and analyzing systematic investment strategies, security selection models, hedging approaches, and advanced portfolio construction and optimization techniques. Our work includes developing quantitative forecasting models to enhance the investment process and support strategic portfolio optimization.

The team collaborates closely with portfolio managers throughout both the analytical and implementation phases of each strategy. In addition, we advise institutional clients on portfolio optimization within client-specific constraints as part of our asset-liability management services. Beyond research and advisory, we also develop AI-driven applications that are deployed across the organization to improve efficiency and decision-making.

You will have the unique opportunity to grow professionally by developing new skills, learning about other fields, and collaborating with a new team. You will be at the forefront of building exciting solutions for our company and making an essential contribution in connecting the dots across our divisions.

We welcome applications from recent graduates and early-career professionals eager to develop expertise across quantitative finance, AI, and engineering.

In this interdisciplinary and challenging environment, we are looking for a motivated Quantitative Developer (f/m/d, 100%).This role corresponds to a Quantitative Data, Software & AI Engineer profile, combining strong software and data engineering ownership with applied AI and close collaboration with quantitative research.

Responsibilities

  • Designing and operating data pipelines and data models for structured and unstructured financial data, including ingestion, transformation, storage, and data quality controls.
  • Developing and maintaining robust, production-grade software systems, libraries, services, and web-based applications that support quantitative research, portfolio analytics, and AI-driven applications.
  • Designing, integrating, and deploying end-to-end AI and machine-learning solutions, with a focus on serving GenAI and machine-learning models within data and software platforms.
  • Collaborating closely with quantitative researchers and portfolio managers to implement, extend, and operationalize quantitative models, portfolio construction methods, and optimization techniques.
  • Translating research concepts into scalable, maintainable, and testable implementations suitable for enterprise use.
  • Building end-to-end solutions, from data ingestion through modeling, backend services, APIs, and user-facing web interfaces.
  • Operating solutions in a cloud-native environment, including containerization, CI/CD workflows, monitoring, and lifecycle management.
  • Supporting internal and client-facing presentations by clearly explaining data flows, model logic, and technical architectures.

Experience

  • MSc (or equivalent practical experience) in computer science, software engineering, data engineering, applied mathematics, or a closely related technical field.
  • Strong software engineering skills, with experience designing modular, maintainable, and production-ready systems, primarily in Python.
  • Full-stack development experience, including:
  • Hands-on experience with at least one modern frontend framework (e.g. React, Vue, or Angular),
  • Experience building backend services, ideally in Python, including APIs that serve data, analytics, and AI/ML models.
  • Strong hands-on experience in data engineering, including database design, schema modeling, and building reliable data pipelines.
  • Practical experience serving AI and machine-learning models (e.g. inference pipelines, GenAI/LLM-based systems).
  • Solid quantitative literacy, with the ability to understand, implement, and extend quantitative models used in portfolio analytics, optimization, or risk management.
  • Experience working across the full data–model–application lifecycle, rather than in a narrowly specialized role.
  • Familiarity with cloud infrastructure, containerization, and CI/CD workflows.
  • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills; results-oriented, self-motivated, eager to learn, and a collaborative team player.
  • Ability to communicate and present complex topics clearly and concisely, adapting to different audiences.
  • Fluency in English is required; good knowledge of German and/or French is a plus.

Strong Assets (Preferred but Not Required)
  • Experience designing and operating data platforms for quantitative research, analytics, or AI use cases.
  • Prior experience in a quantitative, financial, or asset management environment.
  • Strong theoretical background in statistics, stochastic processes, numerical mathematics, or optimization techniques.
  • PhD in a quantitative field (e.g. applied mathematics, statistics, physics, computer science, or quantitative finance).
  • Hands-on experience in AI development, including LLMs, prompt/context engineering, and agentic workflows.
  • Exposure to portfolio construction, optimization, risk modeling, or asset-liability management concepts.
  • Practical knowledge of Azure cloud services and infrastructure-as-code tools (e.g. Terraform).
  • Experience acting as a technical bridge between quantitative researchers, portfolio managers, and engineering teams.
  • Experience in leveraging AI for coding and software development.

Only direct applications will be considered for this vacancy and we do not accept dossiers from recruitment agencies.

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Working conditions

Working conditions Our employees are our most valuable asset. At Swiss Life Asset Managers, we place particular emphasis on compensating them fairly and in line with the market. In addition to the basic salary, compensation consists of a bonus based on the company's success and personal performance. Full-time employees are entitled to at least 25 days off per year. We celebrate service anniversaries every five years.

Remote Working from Abroad

Remote Working from Abroad With our Remote Working from Abroad offering, we enable our employees to work from Abroad for a specific number of days per year

Grow with us

Grow with us For us, all employees are talents whom we want to promote in the best possible way. With this aim in mind, we have founded our own AM Academy, through which we provide our employees with a broad range of training opportunities. We also support them with external training and development.

Family

Family At Swiss Life Asset Managers we want to meet the needs of young families. We therefore offer female employees six months' maternity leave, of which at least 16 weeks are on full pay. Male employees can take three weeks' paternity leave. We recognise the value of caring and offer a wide range of childcare and family support services.

Flexibility

Flexibility We address the individual needs of our employees and aim to create optimal framework conditions. Employees of Swiss Life Asset Managers can work with their manager to determine the right working model for them (e.g. flexible working hours, mobile office, time-out models).

Health & wellbeing

Health & wellbeing The health and wellbeing of our employees is particularly important to us. To this end, we offer a sports club in Switzerland with an attractive offer. Our canteen in the main building offers fresh and balanced meals every day. Social Care Consulting offers confidential and personal support in the event of restrictions due to operational, health, personal or financial issues.

Discounts

Discounts Working at Swiss Life Asset Managers has many advantages. We offer our employees attractive discounts in the following areas: Swiss Life investment products; mortgages and financial planning; conditions for venturers; public transport; Reka cheques and meals allowances.

Pension and social benefits

Pension and social benefits We are there for our employees – in any case. We offer above-average benefits in the event of accident and illness. We also guarantee a discount of 65% on the premium contribution for pillar 3 life insurance and pay an average of 70% employer's contributions to the pension fund (savings and risk contributions).

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