Position Overview

Apollo is seeking a Quantitative Developer to join its Quantitative Analytics Team (the Quant Team) in the Woodland Hills office. The Quant Team develops and maintains proprietary quantitative models that support financial reporting, risk measurement, pricing, and strategic business decisions. The team covers a broad range of asset classes within Asset-Backed Finance ("ABF"), including residential, commercial, and consumer credit, as well as asset-backed structured products.

Primary Responsibilities

ABF Fund Risk Reporting and Portfolio Analytics

• Run daily position and risk analytics for Apollo’s ABF funds using proprietary models.
• Generate automated risk and performance reports that feed directly into trading and investment decisions.
• Investigate day-over-day changes in portfolio metrics and communicate insights to portfolio managers.
• Improve model pipelines and reporting systems for speed and reliability - strong Python programming skills are essential.
• Learn to interpret results, linking data movements to market drivers and portfolio strategy.

US whole loan trading supports

• Work directly with traders to evaluate and analyze residential, commercial, and consumer loan pools.
• Build large-scale loan datasets (“tapes”), ensuring data integrity and consistency.
• Perform stratifications, scenario analysis, model runs, and validations.
• Maintain data and assumptions for ongoing deals and update analytics as new loan data arrives.
• Automate key trading and monitoring workflows for transactions

Quantitative Modeling and Cross-Asset Expansion

• Contribute to the expansion of Apollo’s quantitative models into new asset classes and deal types.
• Participate in the full lifecycle of model development: data collection, model calibration, system integration, and ongoing performance tracking.
• Collaborate closely with senior quants and data engineers, learning how theory becomes production analytics.
• Grow into ownership of specific modeling domains or automation frameworks as your skills develop.

Qualifications & Experience

• Bachelor’s degree (advanced degree preferred) in a quantitative discipline such as Statistics, Quantitative Finance, Mathematics, Physics, Computer Science, or related field.
• 1–3 years of professional or academic experience in programming, data analysis, or quantitative research.
• Strong programming skills: Python required; experience with C++ and C# is a plus.
•  Experience with SQL, Excel, or other data tools for data cleaning and analysis.
• Foundational understanding of finance, capital markets, and fixed income products (exposure to asset-backed or structured products a plus).
• Strong analytical skills, attention to detail, and ability to manage multiple priorities.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and perform in a fast-paced, collaborative environment.

About Apollo

Apollo is a high-growth, global alternative asset manager. In our asset management business, we seek to provide our clients excess return at every point along the risk-reward spectrum from investment grade credit to private equity. For more than three decades, our investing expertise across our fully integrated platform has served the financial return needs of our clients and provided businesses with innovative capital solutions for growth. Through Athene, our retirement services business, we specialize in helping clients achieve financial security by providing a suite of retirement savings products and acting as a solutions provider to institutions. Our patient, creative, and knowledgeable approach to investing aligns our clients, businesses we invest in, our employees, and the communities we impact, to expand opportunity and achieve positive outcomes. As of June 30, 2024, Apollo had approximately $696 billion of assets under management. To learn more, please visit www.apollo.com.

Our Purpose & Core Values

Our clients rely on our investment acumen to help secure their future. We must never lose our focus and determination to be the best investors and most trusted partners on their behalf. We strive to be:

• The leading provider of retirement income solutions to institutions, companies, and individuals.
• The leading provider of capital solutions to companies. Our breadth and scale enable us to deliver capital for even the largest projects – and our small firm mindset ensures we will be a thoughtful and dedicated partner to these organizations. We are committed to helping them build stronger businesses.
• A leading contributor to addressing some of the biggest issues facing the world today – such as energy transition, accelerating the adoption of new technologies, and social impact – where innovative approaches to investing can make a positive difference.

We are building a unique firm of extraordinary colleagues who:

• Outperform expectations
• Challenge Convention
• Champion Opportunity
• Lead responsibly
• Drive collaboration

As One Apollo team, we believe that doing great work and having fun go hand in hand, and we are proud of what we can achieve together.

Our Benefits

Apollo relies on its people to keep it a leader in alternative investment management, and the firm’s benefit programs are crafted to offer meaningful coverage for both you and your family.