Quantitative Research
People who write signal, not slides. Alpha research, statistical arbitrage, market microstructure — the ones whose notebooks are the moat.
- Alpha researchers
- Quant PMs
- Statistical arbitrage
- Market microstructure
Ridge
Placing research engineers, quantitative scientists, and the systems people behind them into firms compounding since 2009.
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About Ridge
Ridge was founded on a simple observation: the best quantitative researchers and infrastructure engineers don't apply to jobs. They get one shot every few years to make a move, and they want that conversation to be with someone who actually understands the work — the systems, the trade-offs, the trade-offs behind the trade-offs. We spent twelve years inside those rooms. Now we run the search the way we wish someone had run it for us.
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Connecting top-tier talent
Engineering & Infrastructure
The people the exchange,latency, and uptime people call first. Low-latency systems, matching engines, the path between event and order.
- Low-latency C++
- Matching engines
- Kernel / NIC / FPGA
- Reliability engineering
AI & Machine Learning
Research engineers who ship models into production and can explain the loss curve over dinner. LLM systems, RL, applied research.
- LLM systems
- Reinforcement learning
- Inference infra
- Applied research
Leadership & Team Builds
Entire desks, built quietly. Heads of research, platform leads, and the founding engineers around whom offices happen.
- Heads of research
- Platform leads
- Founding engineers
- Office builds
Clients
Headlands
- HeadlandsQuant · SF
- Two SigmaResearch · NYC
- EQR · CitadelInfrastructure · CHI
- Vatic LabsAI · Remote
- GQS · ChadelQuant · LDN
- SynthiaAI · TLV
"Ben is in a league of his own as a recruiter. An industry veteran with deep connections, we knew exactly which firms to approach."
Team
Small team. 19 years inside.