About Stabile Search

A specialist firm for a specialist market

Quantitative finance hiring is unlike any other market. The talent pool is small, the interviews are brutal, compensation is complex, and discretion is everything. Stabile Search was built for exactly this.

Matt Stabile, Founder and President of Stabile Search

Founder & President

Meet Matt Stabile

Matt Stabile is New York City's leading recruiter for quantitative finance, AI and data science. For over a decade he has recruited exclusively in this space — placing quantitative researchers, traders, developers, machine learning researchers and data scientists at the most prestigious quant funds, trading firms and AI labs in the world.

With a drive for performance and professionalism, Matt has built his reputation on long-term relationships: with the hiring managers at the top quant firms, and with the researchers and engineers they want to hire.

Matt is also an accomplished public speaker on hiring, job searches and growing technical teams.

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How we're different

Why firms and candidates choose Stabile Search

Direct relationships

We work directly with hiring managers at the top quant funds and trading firms — not through HR portals. That means faster feedback, honest guidance and real access.

Technical fluency

Quant research, systematic trading, LLM pre-training and post-training, Bayesian modeling — we speak the language of the work, so nothing gets lost in translation.

Total discretion

Non-competes, garden leave, confidential mandates — this market runs on discretion. Client names and candidate identities are protected at every step.

Matt was great to work with and truly showed why he is a leader in the Data Science recruitment space.
— Manish Nag, VP of Data + Insights, Engagement at The New York Times

Next step

Let's talk about your search

Hiring for a hard-to-fill quant, AI or data science role — or thinking about your own next move? Start a confidential conversation.

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