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Function / quant engineer

Build the models behind the numbers.
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Building from India, for Indian companies first, then the GCC

What you do

Build the models behind the numbers.

Who you are

Finance, operations research or energy modelling.

This is the role as we describe it today. We publish a full job description when we are ready to hire for it. You can apply now; we consider every application for this and similar roles.

Where you sit

Pods, not pyramids

You work in a pod: 1 Strategy Partner, 1–2 Forward Deployed Strategists, shared ontology and AI engineers. No layers of analysts between you and the client's decision.

5 people, one decision

Fig 5.3A pod: 1 Strategy Partner, 1–2 Forward Deployed Strategists, shared ontology and AI engineers. No layers of analysts between you and the client's decision.

Why strategy1

What the work is like

Real problems, fast

Our engagements run from 72 hours to 3 weeks. You see your work become a decision, then a budget, a brief or a run-sheet.

How we use AI

You work with AI agents every day: research, modelling, red-teaming. You decide what they produce is good enough.

Answerable work

Every number you publish has a source and a grade. Every plan you ship says how it fails. We think that is a better way to do the job.

How we hire

Five steps, with reasons at the end

  1. Apply

    CV and a short note on one decision you shaped.

    10 minutes

  2. First conversation

    30 minutes with the hiring partner.

    30 min

  3. Work sample

    A short, paid exercise on a real-shaped problem. For strategists: frame it, run it, say how it fails.

  4. Pod day

    Meet the people you would work with.

  5. Decision

    We tell you yes or no, with reasons.

Fig 5.2How we hire: apply, talk, show the work, meet the pod, hear the decision and why.

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How we handle your data
What we collect
Name, work email, organisation, role, phone (if given), what you write and any file you upload.
Why
To assess your application for this and similar roles. We keep it until you ask us to delete it, and no longer than the retention period above.
Who sees it
strategy1 staff handling your request. Our service providers, such as hosting and AI model providers, acting for us under contract. We do not sell your data.
Where
Some processing, including AI processing, may happen outside India.
How long
12 months after our last contact. Then it is deleted.
Your rights
Access, correction, completion, erasure, nomination, and withdrawal of consent, as easily as you gave it.
Withdraw or complain
Contact our grievance officer, Hariharan, at hariharan@elan1.ai or through the privacy request form on our Privacy and DPDP page. If you are not satisfied, you may complain to the Data Protection Board of India.
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