Position Overview:

The Client Invoicing Specialist will play a key role in the client invoicing function of the firm by preparing invoices for all clients and ensuring that the invoices are distributed within 30 days of the billing period. This person will report to the Revenue Manager and work closely with the rest of the Corporate Accounting Team as well as key stakeholders in the Operations, Marketing, Performance and Client Service groups. The Corporate Accounting Department is a dynamic team responsible for all financial transactions and financial reporting for the firm, including the consolidation of four foreign subsidiaries and all reporting provided to our parent company. Applications currently utilized within the department are Business Central accounting system, FRx reporting, Excel, Word, and PowerPoint.

Acadian supports a hybrid work environment; employees are on-site in the Boston office 3 days a week.

What You’ll Do:

• Assist with the monthly and quarterly billing process, ensuring that invoices are calculated accurately and delivered in a timely manner; Coordinate with other departments to respond to billing inquiries and  ad-hoc requests from internal and external clients; Assist with reporting deliverables 
• Calculate monthly and quarterly fee rebates and consultant revenue for the client service team
• Update and maintain various databases containing revenue, asset, and fee information
• Assist with the annual audit work related to client invoicing
• Help to calculate commission amounts for internal sales team for monthly accrual and quarterly payment
• Review commingled fund participant fee documentation for approval
• Research client history and provide historical data when needed
• Document and maintain all procedures within the invoicing area; Identify and recommend process improvements and areas for potential automation to enhance productivity and efficiency

We’re Looking for Teammates With:

• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting or relevant field
• Minimum 3 years of invoicing experience from an investment advisory or financial services firm
• Proficient in Excel and experienced in managing large databases
• Ability to understand, compute, and analyze complex invoice calculations
• Experience with foreign currency translation
• Working knowledge of industry terminology (i.e. high water marks)
• Detail oriented and well organized; Good interpersonal and communication skills
• Ability to work independently as well as with a team

The base salary range for this role is $80,000 – $90,000 per year. Actual compensation will be determined based on a candidate’s skills, qualifications, and relevant experience. In addition to base pay, this position may be eligible for discretionary incentive compensation and includes participation in Acadian’s comprehensive benefits program, which includes health, retirement, and wellness offerings.

Position Overview:

We’re looking for a Senior Data Implementation Engineer to help lead and accelerate Acadian’s data transformation efforts. This role is central to reimagining and rebuilding our data platform so that we can continue to scale our investment research, production data workflows, and operational capabilities in a rapidly evolving landscape.

You’ll be hands-on in designing and implementing modern data pipelines and platform capabilities using tools such as Apache Arrow, Polars, Dagster, and other emerging technologies. You’ll also help shape how we use AI-assisted development tools, such as Claude & ChatGPT, and related automation approaches, to improve the speed, quality, and maintainability of data pipeline development.

This is a senior engineering role for someone who can operate across both strategy and execution: deeply understanding existing systems, designing pragmatic transition paths, mentoring others, and building reliable, scalable, high-performance data infrastructure that directly supports Acadian’s quantitative investment process.

Acadian supports a hybrid work environment; employees are on-site in the Boston office 3 days a week.

What You’ll Do

• Lead Data Pipeline Design and Implementation
  • Design, build, and optimize robust data pipelines that are reliable, scalable, observable, and performant. Use modern data engineering tools and patterns to support investment research, production workflows, and downstream analytics.
• Drive System Modernization
  • Deeply understand existing data systems, identify architectural limitations, and lead the transition toward more modern, maintainable, and efficient data architectures.
• Shape Technical Direction
  • Partner with Data Platform Engineering, Data Analysis, and investment teams to define implementation patterns, pipeline standards, and architectural approaches that can scale across the organization.
• Apply AI Tooling to Engineering Workflows
  • Use AI-assisted development tools such as Claude, ChatGPT, or similar technologies to accelerate pipeline development, automate repetitive workflows, improve documentation, generate tests, and enhance developer productivity.
• Mentor and Lead Others
  • Provide technical guidance to junior and mid-level engineers. Help raise the engineering bar through code reviews, design discussions, pairing, documentation, and thoughtful mentorship. Lead small project teams or workstreams when needed.
• Improve Reliability and Operational Excellence
  • Develop systems with strong testing, monitoring, lineage, data quality checks, and operational supportability. Help ensure that data pipelines are resilient, transparent, and easy to maintain.
• Collaborate Across Teams
  • Work closely with stakeholders across technology, data, research, and investment teams to understand requirements, resolve ambiguity, and deliver solutions that create measurable business value.
• Continuously Improve the Platform
  • Identify opportunities to simplify, automate, and improve the data ecosystem. Champion practical innovation while balancing speed, stability, maintainability, and long-term architectural quality.

We’re Looking for Teammates With

• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field

• A strong background in data engineering, data platform implementation, or data-intensive software engineering, ideally with 5+ years of experience in a financial, investment, or technology-driven environment.
• Deep experience building production-grade data pipelines, including ingestion, transformation, validation, orchestration, monitoring, and deployment.
• Strong Python programming skills, with relevant experience working with Dagster, Airflow or similar technologies.
• Experience with modern data architecture patterns such as data lakehouse, Medallion architecture, composable data systems, microservices, and event-driven or workflow-oriented architectures.
• Familiarity with Data Mesh concepts, including decentralized data ownership, domain-oriented data products, governance, and discoverability.
• Experience with orchestration, workflow, and data transformation tools such as dbt, Polars, Pandas, Apache Arrow, or comparable technologies.
• Practical experience using AI-assisted development tools such as Claude, ChatGPT, GitHub Copilot, or similar platforms to support data pipeline development, automation, testing, documentation, and engineering productivity.
• Demonstrated ability to mentor engineers, lead technical workstreams, and influence engineering practices across a team.
• A strong sense of ownership and the ability to operate effectively in ambiguous environments, balancing tactical delivery with long-term architectural thinking.
• A passion for building systems that are efficient, scalable, reliable, observable, and easy for others to use.
• An understanding of how data infrastructure supports the broader investment process, and a desire to deliver solutions that improve outcomes for clients and create meaningful business impact.

The base salary range for this role is $175,000 – $200,000 per year. Actual compensation will be determined based on a candidate’s skills, qualifications, and relevant experience. In addition to base pay, this position may be eligible for discretionary incentive compensation and includes participation in Acadian’s comprehensive benefits program, which includes health, retirement, and wellness offerings.

Position Overview:

This position has design, development and maintenance responsibility for the software programs, databases and processes associated with our core business environments. This would include working with a small team to support a broad range of applications in research, investments, front office and trading applications.  The role requires direct interaction with end users and excellent analytical and communication skills. 

Acadian supports a hybrid work environment; employees are on-site in the Boston office 3 days a week.

What You’ll Do:

• Work on an engineering team to design and develop applications to support the business units
• Assume responsibility for ongoing maintenance of existing core business applications
• Work collaboratively within IT and various business units across the firm

We’re Looking for Teammates With:

• B.S. or M.S. in computer science or equivalent
• 10+ years experience in software development
• 5+ years experience in financial management / services
• Solid knowledge of modern software design principles, concepts, and practices
• Significant experience with Python and associated technologies
• Significant experience with relational databases and SQL
• Knowledge of C# / Microsoft stack a plus
• Experience leading a technical team a plus
• Experience with cloud-based development (AWS preferred)
• Experience with a major cloud provider (e.g., AWS, Azure, or GCP)
• Building and deploying applications in a cloud environment
• Infrastructure as code (Terraform, CloudFormation, etc.)
• Containers and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes)
• Monitoring, logging, and basic cloud security practices

The base salary range for this role is $190,000 – $215,000 per year. Actual compensation will be determined based on a candidate’s skills, qualifications, and relevant experience. In addition to base pay, this position may be eligible for discretionary incentive compensation and includes participation in Acadian’s comprehensive benefits program, which includes health, retirement, and wellness offerings.

Position Overview:

The role is in the Portfolio Control group within the Investment Operations department. The Portfolio Control team sits at the intersection of operations, fund accounting, and external service providers, with a focus on oversight, control, and issue resolution across client portfolios and Acadian funds. This role is responsible for ensuring the integrity of portfolio data, managing key operational relationships, and supporting the lifecycle of client accounts from onboarding through ongoing maintenance. In this role, you will gain exposure to a broad range of asset classes, global markets, and operational workflows, with opportunities to drive process improvements and interact with key internal and external stakeholders.

Acadian supports a hybrid work environment; employees are on-site in the Boston office 3 days a week.

What You’ll Do:

• Fund Oversight — Oversee portfolio accounting, custody, and middle-office functions. Investigate and resolve discrepancies across internal systems and external providers. Interact with custodians, prime brokers, and derivative counterparties (e.g., ISDA relationships) to support new fund launches, trading, collateral, and account maintenance activities. Reconcile proxy-voting reports and address inquiries from external and internal parties.
• New Account Startup/Onboarding — Prepare documentation to complete counterparty welcome packages for separately managed accounts, complete internal system setups, and act as a liaison between stakeholders.
• Fund Administration — Manage and participate in oversight of fund expense processes including budgeting, accruals, invoice review, and payments. Prepare regulatory, compliance, and tax filings and support audits; research and resolve exceptions or breaches. Collaborate with external auditors and counterparties to finalize audited financial statements.
• Market Documentation — Open local markets for funds and maintain market and compliance documentation throughout the life of the fund.
• Tax Reporting — Respond to client inquiries regarding fund taxes; facilitate K-1 and Canadian tax filings, Form 5500, PFIC and other tax reporting.
• Operational Strategy — Identify process improvement opportunities including the use of AI across workflows, service providers, and systems; drive initiatives to enhance scalability, reduce operational risk, and improve data quality. Continuously assess and strengthen operational processes, controls, and governance.
• Technical Skills – Advanced Excel proficiency; experience with portfolio accounting systems (e.g., Advent Geneva or similar) preferred. Experience with data analysis and visualization tools (e.g., Tableau) a plus.

We’re Looking for Teammates With:

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Mathematics or Economics preferred.
• 7+ years of experience in investment operations, fund accounting, or related roles.
• Strong organizational, interpersonal, and analytical skills with a proven ability to manage multiple priorities across daily tasks and long-term projects.
• Self-starter; highly motivated and driven individual with a strong work ethic and integrity.
• Strong analytical, organizational, and interpersonal skills with a detail-oriented approach and a solid foundation in financial accounting.
• Proven ability to manage multiple priorities across daily tasks and long-term projects while effectively solving complex problems.
• Effective communicator with experience working cross-functionally and with external partners.
• Ability to serve as a point of escalation for operational issues, driving root cause analysis and coordinating resolution across internal teams and external partners.

The base salary range for this role is $105,000 – $125,000 per year. Actual compensation will be determined based on a candidate’s skills, qualifications, and relevant experience. In addition to base pay, this position may be eligible for discretionary incentive compensation and includes participation in Acadian’s comprehensive benefits program, which includes health, retirement, and wellness offerings.

Position Overview:

We are seeking a Portfolio Manager to join our Equity Portfolio Management team in Boston. Our Equity Portfolio Management team oversees our benchmark-relative active quantitative equity strategies from Boston, London, and Singapore. This person will be expected to demonstrate senior presence both internally, via portfolio oversight and research, and externally, via face-to-face meetings and presentations.

Acadian supports a hybrid work environment; employees are on-site in the Boston office 3 days a week.

What You’ll Do: 

• Work closely with other portfolio managers to oversee and manage our client portfolios, including monitoring portfolios and approving trades
• Work with researchers and analysts to identify and deploy enhancements to our investment process
• Lead meetings with clients, consultants, and prospects to communicate and explain portfolio performance, positioning, and Acadian’s systematic investment process
• Participate in internal investment policy discussions and decisions
• Answer ad-hoc inquiries from clients, consultants, and prospects

We’re Looking for Teammates With: 

• An advanced degree, Ph.D. preferred, with distinguished academic record in economics, finance, mathematics, computer science, engineering, physics, or similar discipline
• Minimum of 10 years’ experience (5 years’ with Ph.D.) in finance, preferably asset management, investment consulting, or academia, with emphasis on quantitative investing and risk management
• Ability to perform deep reviews of our equity portfolios, generate ideas and recommendations to improve our systematic portfolio management process
• Willingness and ability to work in a team-first, collegial, and result-oriented environment
• Superior verbal and written communications skills (English required, other languages welcome)
• Strong programming background required, e.g., in Python
• Ability to conduct meetings with clients and prospects
• Willingness to travel globally 20 – 40% of the time

The base salary range for this role is $185,0000 – 225,000 per year. Actual compensation will be determined based on a candidate’s skills, qualifications, and relevant experience. In addition to base pay, this position may be eligible for discretionary incentive compensation and includes participation in Acadian’s comprehensive benefits program, which includes health, retirement, and wellness offerings.

Position Overview:

The  Procurement Manager is a strategic people leader and category/program owner responsible for advancing Acadian's procurement strategy and execution across key spend categories, specifically investment data, and technology. This role reports to the Director of Procurement and manages one direct report.

This role manages the sourcing pipeline for business spend and team execution, leads complex sourcing and negotiation efforts, and drives consistent procurement standards, process governance, and stakeholder engagement. Partnering closely with business stakeholders, the Procurement Manager delivers measurable cost, risk, and service outcomes while advancing procurement capabilities through data, technology, and best-in-class strategic sourcing practices.

Acadian supports a hybrid work environment; employees are on-site in the Boston office 3 days per week.

What You'll Do:

•  Develop and execute category strategies across investment data, technology, global client and corporate teams in support of business objectives.
• Lead procurement intake, prioritization, and sourcing execution across assigned categories, including pipeline management, timelines, governance, and stakeholder alignment.
• Lead complex sourcing initiatives end-to-end, including requirements development, RFx execution, proposal evaluation, negotiation, and supplier selection, while driving savings and commercial value through market analysis and total cost of ownership.
• Negotiate contracts, pricing, and service levels to achieve strong commercial outcomes, appropriate risk mitigation, and clear business value.
• Serve as a trusted advisor to business stakeholders and partner with Finance, Legal/Compliance and Technology to structure effective agreements and support efficient, compliant source-to-pay processes.
• Lead and develop procurement team members through prioritization, coaching, feedback, and clear execution standards.
• Drive continuous improvement across procurement processes, controls, and systems by leveraging procurement technology, reporting, and automation to improve compliance, cycle time, spend visibility, and PO adoption.

 We're Looking for Teammates With:

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Supply Chain, Finance, or a related field, or equivalent experience; advanced degree or relevant certifications a plus.
• 8+ years of progressive procurement and/or strategic sourcing experience, including investment data and technology services categories; experience in financial services, investment management, or technology-driven environments preferred.
• Experience managing procurement professionals and/or leading complex sourcing initiatives.
• Strong understanding of procurement processes, contract structures, pricing models, and third-party risk considerations.
• Experience using procurement technology (e.g., P2P, CLM, e-sourcing, ERP platforms), reporting/analytics tools and artificial intelligence (AI) capabilities.
• Ability to diplomatically influence stakeholders, challenge assumptions thoughtfully, and drive decisions with strong commercial judgment.
• Excellent leadership, project management, organizational, analytical, communication, and stakeholder management skills.

The base salary range for this role is $120,000 - $130,000 per year. Actual compensation will be determined based on a candidate's skills, qualifications, and relevant experience. In addition to base pay, this position may be eligible for discretionary incentive compensation and includes participation in Acadian's comprehensive benefits program, which includes health, retirement, and wellness offerings.

Position Overview:

This role is responsible for building and evolving Acadian’s Identity and Configuration Platform. A core team which enables secure, scalable and seamless access to systems, across both cloud and on-prem environments. You will develop APIs, services and tooling to standardize identity, configuration and operational patterns across the firm. The goal is to make secure access simple, consistent and durable for every team at the firm, directly or indirectly.

This is a hands-on platform engineering role that blends software development, architecture and SRE operations. You will be expected to design, build, support and operate critical infrastructure, build in security by default, making it easy to consume patterns and services. This could range from enterprise identity management to production level SSO, DNS, Certificate services and Secrets Management, EKS and more. You will act in a building and advisory capacity with deep technical knowledge.

Acadian supports a hybrid work environment; employees are on-site in the Boston office 3 days a week.

What You’ll Do:

• Build and maintain APIs, services, libraries and patterns to standardize services we own across the stack.
• Develop reusable platform capabilities to reduce duplication and eliminate one-off solutions across teams.
• Improve the daily experience of all users at the firm within our domain.
• Partner with engineering teams to integrate platform services into their applications and workflows.
• Operate and support critical platform services, including participation in an on-call rotation.
• Automate operational workflows to improve reliability, observability and incident response.
• Contribute to architectural direction and continuously improve the firm’s identity and access strategy.
• Mentor peers and help raise the engineering bar across the organization.
• Team operates in pair programming sessions for better than 90% of the working day.

We’re Looking for Teammates With:

• BS in in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electronic Engineering, Information Technology, or a directly related field plus 3 years of related software engineering experience. (7 years of experience without BS degree).
• At least 2 years of prior experience, financial services exposure is a plus.
• Strong backend engineering experience in one or more of: Go, Python or TypeScript.
• Comfortable working across Linux-based systems and scripting (e.g., Bash, PowerShell)
• Experience with Infrastructure as Code (Terraform preferred)
• Experience building APIs, services, or shared platform components used by other engineers
• Solid understanding of software design principles, including modularity, testability, and maintainability
• Hands-on experience with AWS and cloud-native architecture.
• Familiarity with Kubernetes (EKS preferred) and containerized systems
• Understanding of authentication and authorization concepts (OAuth2, OIDC, SAML, tokens) (preferred)
• Experience with identity providers (e.g., Okta, Entra ID) (preferred)
• Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor and other AI model experience a plus.

The base salary range for this role is $180,000 – $200,000 per year. Actual compensation will be determined based on a candidate’s skills, qualifications, and relevant experience. In addition to base pay, this position may be eligible for discretionary incentive compensation and includes participation in Acadian’s comprehensive benefits program, which includes health, retirement, and wellness offerings.

Position Overview: 

The Business Strategy team is responsible for advancing Acadian’s firmwide strategic agenda in alignment with the Executive Committee’s priorities and long-term corporate objectives. We partner closely with business leaders across the organization to translate strategy into actionable initiatives, drive enterprise-wide alignment, and ensure disciplined execution of the firm’s project portfolio. Our goal is to position Acadian for sustainable growth while maintaining focus, accountability, and measurable outcomes.

The Vice President, Business Strategy will play a critical role in aligning projects, people, and resources to deliver on firmwide strategic initiatives. Reporting to the Director of Business Strategy, this individual will operate at the intersection of strategy and execution — working directly with senior leaders to scope complex initiatives, define business requirements, and oversee implementation across functions. This role offers significant visibility across the organization and requires the ability to influence without direct authority, manage competing priorities, and drive clarity in ambiguous environments.

Acadian supports a hybrid work environment; this specific role is expected on-site in the Boston office at least three days per week.

What You’ll Do: 

• Partner with business leaders to define, prioritize, and execute strategic and operational initiatives aligned with corporate objectives
• Lead cross-functional initiatives from concept through implementation, ensuring alignment across stakeholders and measurable outcomes
• Develop structured project plans, business requirements, risk assessments, and resource models to support disciplined execution
• Provide governance and oversight across strategic initiatives, identifying interdependencies, conflicts, and resource constraints
• Deliver clear, concise updates to senior leadership and internal committees, translating complexity into actionable insight
• Evaluate and recommend resource allocation decisions in partnership with functional leaders
• Help facilitate the annual budget planning process, ensuring alignment between strategic priorities and capital deployment
• Identify opportunities to improve operating processes, coordination mechanisms, and execution discipline across the firm

We’re Looking for Teammates With: 

• Bachelor’s degree required; advanced degree or CFA preferred
• 7–10+ years of experience in investment management, strategy, or consulting
• Demonstrated experience leading complex, cross-functional initiatives
• Experience partnering with front office, trading, or investment teams, with familiarity across portfolio management, execution, and both pre-trade and post-trade workflows
• Strong analytical and structured problem-solving capabilities
• Ability to influence senior stakeholders and build alignment without formal authority
• Excellent communication skills, with the ability to tailor messaging to diverse audiences
• Proven ability to navigate ambiguity and drive results in a fast-paced environment
• Strong interpersonal skills and the ability to build credibility across levels of the organization

The base salary range for this role is $175,000 – $200,000 per year. Actual compensation will be determined based on a candidate’s skills, qualifications, and relevant experience. In addition to base pay, this position may be eligible for discretionary incentive compensation and includes participation in Acadian’s comprehensive benefits program, which includes health, retirement, and wellness offerings.

Position Overview:

The role is in the Portfolio Control group within the Investment Operations department. The Portfolio Control team sits at the intersection of operations, fund accounting, and external service providers, with a focus on oversight, control, and issue resolution across client portfolios and Acadian funds. This role is responsible for ensuring the integrity of portfolio data, managing key operational relationships, and supporting the lifecycle of client accounts from onboarding through ongoing maintenance. In this role, you will gain exposure to a broad range of asset classes, global markets, and operational workflows, with opportunities to drive process improvements and interact with key internal and external stakeholders.

Acadian supports a hybrid work environment, employees are on-site in the Boston office 3 days a week.

What You’ll Do: 

· Fund Oversight — Oversee portfolio accounting, custody, and middle-office functions. Investigate and resolve discrepancies across internal systems and external providers. Interact with custodians, prime brokers, and derivative counterparties (e.g., ISDA relationships) to support new fund launches, trading, collateral, and account maintenance activities. Reconcile proxy-voting reports and address inquiries from external and internal parties.

· New Account Startup/Onboarding — Prepare documentation to complete counterparty welcome packages for separately managed accounts, complete internal system setups, and act as a liaison between stakeholders.

· Fund Administration — Manage and participate in oversight of fund expense processes including budgeting, accruals, invoice review, and payments. Prepare regulatory, compliance, and tax filings and support audits; research and resolve exceptions or breaches. Collaborate with external auditors and counterparties to finalize audited financial statements.

· Market Documentation — Open local markets for funds and maintain market and compliance documentation throughout the life of the fund.

· Tax Reporting — Respond to client inquiries regarding fund taxes; facilitate K-1 and Canadian tax filings, Form 5500, PFIC and other tax reporting.

· Operational Strategy — Identify process improvement opportunities including the use of AI across workflows, service providers, and systems; drive initiatives to enhance scalability, reduce operational risk, and improve data quality. Continuously assess and strengthen operational processes, controls, and governance.

· Technical Skills – Advanced Excel proficiency; experience with portfolio accounting systems (e.g., Advent Geneva or similar) preferred. Experience with data analysis and visualization tools (e.g., Tableau) a plus.

We’re Looking for Teammates With: 

· 4+ years of experience in investment operations, fund accounting, or related roles.

· Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Mathematics or Economics preferred.

· Strong organizational, interpersonal, and analytical skills with a proven ability to manage multiple priorities across daily tasks and long-term projects.

· Self-starter; highly motivated and driven individual with a strong work ethic and integrity.

· Strong analytical, organizational, and interpersonal skills with a detail-oriented approach and a solid foundation in financial accounting.

· Proven ability to manage multiple priorities across daily tasks and long-term projects while effectively solving complex problems.

· Effective communicator with experience working cross-functionally and with external partners.

· Ability to serve as a point of escalation for operational issues, driving root cause analysis and coordinating resolution across internal teams and external partners.

The base salary range for this role is $80,000 – $100,000 per year. Actual compensation will be determined based on a candidate’s skills, qualifications, and relevant experience. In addition to base pay, this position may be eligible for discretionary incentive compensation and includes participation in Acadian’s comprehensive benefits program, which includes health, retirement, and wellness offerings.

Position Overview:

The Investment AI Engineer is a senior, execution-focused individual in the Investment team, working alongside quantitative researchers and portfolio managers to design, build, and operate agentic solutions that accelerate the investment process. The role partners with Technology to evolve production-grade, enterprise AI capabilities, while remaining focused on building investment-specific skills, sub-agents, and workflows that enable safe, repeatable automation within research and portfolio workflows. This position reflects a broader shift toward instruction-driven development and human-in-the-loop agentic systems that augment investment teams while preserving judgment, rigor, and accountability. Key to success in this role is the ability to translate abstract investment and research intent into clear, achievable specifications and high‑quality merge requests that integrate cleanly into existing production systems.

Acadian supports a hybrid work environment; employees are on-site in the Boston office 3 days a week.

What You’ll Do:

• Deliver reusable skills that encode investment workflows, conventions, and institutional knowledge for use across the Investment team.
• Implement safe automation practices, including human-in-the-loop review, testing, and controlled execution of agentic workflows.
• Design, build, and operate investment-facing AI agents, skills, and workflows that automate repeatable research and portfolio tasks.
• Define and maintain guardrails around cost, data access, agent scope, and commit size to ensure reliable and responsible usage.
• Translate complex, often ambiguous investment and research requirements into clear technical specifications, well-scoped tasks, and reviewable merge requests.
• Embed within existing investment teams, working closely with team leads and domain experts to translate investment intent into concrete, production‑ready agentic workflows and software changes.
• Partner directly with quantitative researchers and portfolio managers to prototype, refine, and productionize AI-enabled workflows.
• Measure and improve the outcomes of AI-enabled workflows, including adoption, quality, and time-to-value.
• Identify opportunities where agentic workflows can meaningfully improve investment productivity and decision support.
• Establish and reinforce review norms for agent-generated changes, ensuring clarity of intent, auditability, and accountability.
• Contribute to defining best practices for instruction-driven development and agentic workflows within the Investment team.
• Serve as a point of continuity between evolving AI capabilities and practical investment use cases, helping the team adapt as tools mature.

We’re Looking for Teammates With:

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related technical field, or equivalent practical experience.
• Significant experience as a software or AI engineer delivering production-grade systems, with a focus on execution rather than research prototypes.
• Demonstrated experience building and operating AI- or LLM-enabled tooling, automation, or agentic workflows in real-world environments.
• Strong proficiency in Python, AWS, and modern development practices, including testing, version control, and CI/CD.
• Experience translating complex domain intent (e.g., research or investment workflows) into clear specifications and reliable software artifacts.
• Ability to reason clearly about tradeoffs involving quality, cost, speed, and risk, and to apply those tradeoffs in day-to-day execution.
• Experience working closely with quantitative researchers, portfolio managers, or similarly sophisticated domain experts.
• Demonstrated ability to operate effectively in collaborative, fast-moving environments where tools, patterns, and best practices are evolving.
• Baseline understanding of systematic or quantitative investment processes, or demonstrated ability to quickly develop intuition for how investment research translates into live portfolio decisions.
• Demonstrated judgment in distinguishing technically impressive solutions from those that are practically useful, robust, and aligned with the needs of a systematic investment organization.

The base salary range for this role is $225,000 – $275,000 per year. Actual compensation will be determined based on a candidate’s skills, qualifications, and relevant experience. In addition to base pay, this position may be eligible for discretionary incentive compensation and includes participation in Acadian’s comprehensive benefits program, which includes health, retirement, and wellness offerings.

Position Overview:

We are seeking a Principal Quant Engineer to work in close collaboration with Research, Portfolio Management, and Data teams to design and implement scalable, production-grade platforms that support Acadian’s quantitative research and investment processes.

This role focuses on building quant tooling that enables researchers to efficiently develop, evaluate, and deploy quantitative models across investment processes including alpha, risk, transaction cost analysis, attribution, etc. The emphasis is on creating infrastructure that makes quantitative research repeatable, observable, and production-ready at scale.

Acadian supports a hybrid work environment; employees are on-site in the Boston office 3 days a week.

What You’ll Do:

• Design and implement quant tooling that supports signal construction and evaluation workflows, powering production portfolios across global asset universes.
• Work closely with quantitative researchers to ensure research infrastructure continues to evolve in step with their needs, enabling efficient experimentation and reliable alpha generation.
• Lead the AI centric development and evolution of core platform capabilities that support signal computation, data access, workflow orchestration, and distributed execution for both quantitative signals and machine learning-based techniques, including deep learning workflows built with PyTorch.
• Ensure platform flexibility while maintaining integration with downstream processes for portfolio construction, portfolio management, marketing, client reporting, etc
• Incorporate machine learning and AI techniques into signal construction, parameter estimation, and efficacy evaluation workflows where they improve forecast quality and research productivity, including hyper‑parameter optimization using frameworks such as Optuna or similar.
• Provide architectural leadership to improve robustness, transparency, scalability, and performance of data- and compute-intensive research and production workflows.
• Collaborate with data and platform teams to streamline access to market data, alternative datasets, and compute resources, reducing friction in the research “inner loop” of signal development, backtesting, and validation.
• Contribute to the end‑to‑end machine learning lifecycle capabilities, including experiment tracking, model management, embedding and graph visualization, and deployment, drawing on tools and concepts such as MLflow.

We’re Looking for Teammates With:

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in Computer Science, Engineering, Applied Mathematics, or a related quantitative field.
• 7+ years of experience in software engineering, with significant hands-on work supporting quantitative research, signal development, or systematic investing in production environments.
• Demonstrated experience building and operating quantitative platforms that support signal modeling, evaluation, and deployment at scale.
• Strong proficiency in Python and modern data processing and numerical computing tools (e.g., Polars).
• Familiarity with machine learning and AI-assisted development techniques, including the use of AI or agentic coding tools (e.g. Claude Code) to improve research and engineering productivity.
• Solid understanding of system design concepts.
• Demonstrated ability to deliver robust, transparent, and performant systems.
• Strong attention to detail and a commitment to producing accurate, reliable, and well-engineered solutions.
• Creativity and enthusiasm for solving complex problems.
• Strong work ethic and a roll-up-your-sleeves mindset, with the ability to operate effectively in a hands-on, collaborative environment.

The base salary range for this role is $185,000 – $225,000 per year. Actual compensation will be determined based on a candidate’s skills, qualifications, and relevant experience. In addition to base pay, this position may be eligible for discretionary incentive compensation and includes participation in Acadian’s comprehensive benefits program, which includes health, retirement, and wellness offerings.

Acadian Asset Management is a global, systematic investment manager at the forefront of data-driven investing since 1986. Headquartered in Boston, with locations in Singapore, London, and Sydney, we manage over $166 billion on behalf of leading institutions worldwide—including pension funds, endowments, foundations, and sovereign wealth funds. We harness advanced technology, rich datasets, and multidisciplinary expertise to help clients navigate complex markets and uncover insights that may be overlooked by traditional approaches.

What sets Acadian apart is our people. We foster a collaborative, intellectually curious environment where ideas are tested, diverse perspectives are welcomed, and innovation thrives. We’re united by a shared purpose: delivering effective client outcomes and supporting one another in work that’s both challenging and rewarding. We offer a flexible hybrid work environment, strong benefits, and a casual but focused office culture—all designed to support the meaningful, collaborative work that defines Acadian.

Position Overview:

The Platform team is responsible for building and supporting services that enable our development teams to leverage frameworks, tooling, and services across in-house and vendor PaaS/IaaS offerings. Platform defines the architectural roadmap, best practices, and provides education on these services. This position will work on a cross-functional team that is responsible for implementation and maintenance of our investment infrastructure, focusing on building reusable application templates, patterns of delivery, and operational support of our systems running in AWS and Kubernetes. You will partner with development teams in the Investment group and peers in Platform to guide how we operate our applications. Platform’s goal is to enable our fellow product focused teams to deliver solutions faster through automation and engineering.

Acadian supports a hybrid work environment; employees are on-site in the Boston office 3 days a week.

What You’ll Do:

· Pair with your team members to build out services and tooling that advance our cloud capabilities using AWS services like EKS, ECS, EC2, Lambda, Bedrock, and ParallelCluster

· Design, build, and maintain agentic AI systems and automated workflows that augment decision-making and operational efficiency

· Work closely with our partners at AWS to leverage architecture and support services

· Review, comment, and approve pull/merge requests

· Drive automation of the entire software delivery lifecycle

· Proactively improve and modernize our tech stack

· Ensure observability and availability of the investment systems

· Troubleshoot and resolve operational issues

· Mentor junior members of the team

· Rotate through an on-call schedule with your team members to provide afterhours support when needed

We’re Looking for Teammates With:

· BS in Computer Science or related field preferred with at least 5 years of prior experience (Financial services exposure is a plus)

· Proven record of building scalable and durable services in AWS

· Knowledge of observability platforms such as OpenTelemetry, CloudWatch, New Relic, Prometheus

· Understanding of modern AI concepts, including agentic systems, orchestration, and automation workflows.

· Knowledge of migration strategies for legacy workloads to AWS

· Knowledge of common patterns and software architecture

· Familiarity with scripting in Bash/POSIX Shell

· Experience developing services/libraries across multiple languages (Python, TypeScript, Go, and C# are relevant to our current stack)

· Experience with Terraform, Helm, and Kustomize (CDK experience is a plus)

· Demonstrated expertise with Linux and Kubernetes

· Structured approach to troubleshooting

· Practical experience with networking and storage

The base salary range for this role is $165,000 – $185,000 per year. Actual compensation will be determined based on a candidate’s skills, qualifications, and relevant experience. In addition to base pay, this position may be eligible for discretionary incentive compensation and includes participation in Acadian’s comprehensive benefits program, which includes health, retirement, and wellness offerings.

Position Overview:

This position is within the Implementation Team at a leading quantitatively-oriented global equity management firm. As a primary function, the Associate Portfolio Manager, Implementation will utilize advanced portfolio construction techniques and industry leading technology to manage client portfolios. In addition, this role will collaborate with the broader Implementation and Portfolio Management teams and other investment professionals to research and implement new portfolio construction techniques and trading strategies, further systematize the investment process, and enhance the Firm’s capabilities. Acadian supports a hybrid work environment; employees are on-site in the Boston office 3 days a week.

What You’ll Do:

• Oversee portfolio construction for firm-wide client portfolios, across asset classes
• Responsible for portfolio cash flow, transition, and risk management and adherence to client guidelines
• Critically think about portfolio optimization and keep informed of industry best practices
• Engage with portfolio managers, operations, compliance, business development, and client service teams as needs arise relating to portfolio oversight
• Communicate portfolio insights and research to the broader investment team and senior management
• Engage in project work aimed at process and workflow improvements and automation, including AI
• Work with other departments to understand and address potential conflicts and process improvements

We’re Looking for Teammates With:

• Bachelor’s degree in quantitative or technical field; Master’s degree and/or CFA progression/designation a plus
• 10+ years of relevant experience within the investment industry, preferably in equity, fixed income, and foreign exchange markets
• Strong analytical and mathematical skills, including optimization techniques and familiarity with quantitative investment models, techniques and a demonstrated understanding of a quantitative trading processes and tools
• Experience developing enhancements and automation for proprietary portfolio management platform
• Prior experience with an order management system, preferably Charles River Development (CRD)
• Strong Python programming skills; Experience applying AI techniques, including large language models (LLMs), to investment use cases
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills to conceptualize and build analytical tools
• Demonstrated willingness and ability to learn and maintain relevant technical and/or investment skills
• Willingness and ability to work in a collegial, results-oriented environment, must be a strong team player
• Drive to work in a fast-paced environment and meet daily deadlines, while ensuring a high level of attention to detail

The base salary range for this role is $160,000 – $175,000 per year. Actual compensation will be determined based on a candidate’s skills, qualifications, and relevant experience. In addition to base pay, this position may be eligible for discretionary incentive compensation and includes participation in Acadian’s comprehensive benefits program, which includes health, retirement, and wellness offerings.