Derivatives-focused alternative asset manager building in-house risk and trading tech
Capstone Investment Advisors is a New York-based alternative investment manager centered on derivatives strategies. Its stack pairs Bloomberg and Tradeweb with a lakehouse layer (Apache Iceberg, Spark, Trino, Snowflake) plus LangChain and LlamaIndex, consistent with active projects on LLM-based execution algorithms and a risk intelligence platform. Accelerating hiring tilts toward finance and engineering, with treasury, funding and counterparty monitoring as recurring pain points.
Capstone Investment Advisors is a privately held global alternative investment management firm founded in 2004 and headquartered in New York. The firm pursues derivatives-based and complementary strategies on behalf of its investors. It employs 201–500 people and hires in the United States and United Kingdom. Its technology organization supports trading, risk, treasury and valuation functions using languages including Python, Java, C#, C++ and JavaScript across AWS and Azure infrastructure.
Capstone uses Python, Java, C#, C++, SQL Server, PostgreSQL, Snowflake, Apache Spark, Iceberg, Trino, Kafka, Kubernetes, Terraform, AWS, Azure, Bloomberg and Tradeweb, plus LangChain and LlamaIndex.
Job posts point to LLM-based execution algorithm deployment, a risk intelligence platform, cross-asset risk capabilities, systematic trading strategies, valuation calibration workflows and a next-generation data platform.
Capstone is headquartered in New York and hires in the United States and United Kingdom, with hiring concentrated in finance and engineering and currently accelerating.
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