{"id":111196,"date":"2025-09-03T09:42:04","date_gmt":"2025-09-03T09:42:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/111196\/"},"modified":"2025-09-03T09:42:04","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T09:42:04","slug":"ex-citadel-securities-quant-researcher-swept-up-in-metas-ai-recruiting-drive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/111196\/","title":{"rendered":"Ex-Citadel Securities quant researcher swept-up in Meta’s AI recruiting drive"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you want to make an average of $2m a year<\/a>, you will work for Citadel Securities<\/a>. If you want to earn $100m over a period of years, you will work for Meta’s new superintelligence lab. It seems that one Citadel Securities quant researcher <\/a>has made this journey, although it’s not clear that either sum of money applies specifically to him.<\/p>\n

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Amaury Sabran spent four years working in quant research at Citadel Securities before leaving last December for Waveforms.AI, where he was part of the founding team. Waveforms.AI was acquired by Meta<\/a> for an undisclosed sum in August.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Ergo Sabran now works for Meta instead.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Waveforms.AI is being incorporated into the Meta superintelligence lab, which has allegedly been offering $100m packages to top AI researchers in a quest to develop intelligence greater than that of human beings. $100m is a huge amount of money. Techcrunch<\/a> says it’s structured as a four-year package with restricted stock units.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Sabran declined to comment for this article. At Citadel Securities, he worked in the London office on “monetization research” for European equities. At Waveforms.AI, he worked on personalized real time AI assistants.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Other quants have gone into AI too. As we noted last year<\/a>, AI firms have become a popular option for quants on gardening leave: because they’re not direct competitors of funds or market makers, it’s possible to work for an AI firm without triggering a non-compete.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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