full-time
Lead – AI Quant Engineer
Franklin Templeton
- Employer
- Franklin Templeton
- Location
- San Mateo, California, United States
- Working pattern
- hybrid
- Salary
- $189,200–$233,800 / year
About the role
Lead the design and development of secure, scalable quantitative and AI systems, including production LLM and agent-based platforms, and move research concepts into reliable production services. Apply AI to improve system design and team workflows while ensuring rigorous testing, monitoring, governance, reproducibility, and human oversight. A master's or doctoral degree in a quantitative, computer science, engineering, machine learning, or related discipline is preferred, or equivalent experience; candidates should have at least eight years of relevant experience, including three years leading complex AI or quantitative systems. The role requires expert Python skills, strong quantitative and portfolio-risk expertise, production LLM or agent-system experience, distributed-systems architecture, and sound judgment in model risk, data quality, governance, and stakeholder communication.