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Really not that many To name a few San Francisco/Bay Area:

Blackrock - their systematic active equity business and I believe systematic fixed income hedge fund are here. Both top notch if you're looking for buyside quant gigs.

Voleon Group - bunch of PhDs from Berkeley/Stanford with mediocre returns

Parallax volatility advisors - don't know much

QVR advisors - don't know much

Cutler Group (RIP) - used to be the only OMM on the west coast as far as I know. Shuttered like 2 months ago. Apparently investors wanted their money back.

Woodline Partners - not quant really but do hire some quants. Top notch fundamental equity l/s shop I hear though.

LA/SoCal

PIMCO - the big daddy of fixed income AM. Pay very well at the higher levels (I think if you make EVP you can make around a million, very tough to make it that high up though). Do hire a ton of quants. However you gotta wear a shirt and tie in Newport Beach :(.

Crabel - Knew one guy who used to work here who called this place really shitty if you are a technical person. YMMV

Research Affiliates - not too familiar with them but definitely quant.

TGS - Rentech in Irvine, CA. Pretty much impossible to get a job here.

Seattle

Evergreen statistical trading - Radix trading spinoff. Don't know if they launched yet or not but just have one guy thus far but they're looking to hire ig.

 

I know a few in SF 

Dexterity capital - don't know much but they've been around for a while so probably make some money

KBit, GSR also have small outfits here I think. 

Pantera capital - tiger cub crypto I think.

Bitwise asset management - they're trying to become the blackrock of crypto by being the first to offer index funds in crypto

Crypto is really scattered so while there might be like 20-30 shops most will be unknown entities with 2 dudes in a basement. There really aren't gigantic corporations in this space yet.

 

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