Point72
Venture Capital · Hedge Funds & Alternative Investments
Truth index BSponsors visasDomain protected (DMARC)
171Open roles22 posted in 30 days+7 this week
$220kMedian advertised pay$150k – $250k+48% vs market
138 daysTime to fillmedian of 119 closed rolesmarket: 36 days
2,022EmployeesUS Form 5500 (plan participants) · Dec 2024
Lately:+7 roles posted this weekFollow changes →
Facts
as of Nov 14, 2026Point72 is an American investment firm founded in 2014 when Steven Cohen converted his former hedge fund SAC Capital into a family office, before reopening to outside capital in 2018. It runs a multi-strategy business dominated by discretionary long and short equity teams organised as independent portfolio managers, alongside macro, systematic and quantitative strategies that rely heavily on alternative data and machine learning. Headquartered in Stamford, Connecticut with offices across North America, Europe and Asia, it also operates Point72 Ventures as a venture capital arm and runs a well-known academy programme that trains analysts from outside finance.
It is hiring: 171 open roles, 22 of them posted in the last 30 days. Its stated pay is 48% above the market estimate for the same roles.
- Headquarters
- Stamford, United States
- Founded
- 2014
- Employees
- 2,022US Form 5500 (plan participants) · Dec 2024
- Open roles
- 171 in 12 citiesAlion job postings
- Official records
- Wikidata Q2204741
- Website
- point72.com
As of Nov 14, 2026, Alion lists 171 open roles at Point72. Point72 is headquartered in Stamford, United States. It was founded in 2014. The median pay stated in its open roles is $220k, across 59 postings that state pay.
Sources: company registers, GLEIF, Wikidata, the company's site, Alion job postingsReport a mistake
What the registers and the postings say about this employer.
Postings are real
Alion truth index: B
78/100
Ghost roles
re-checked against its careers site
28%
Sanctions lists
OFAC SDN, EU consolidated
No match
Phishing reports
OpenPhish, Phishing.Database
None
Layoff notices
US WARN notices on file
None
Domain and mail securitypoint72.com · Nov 14, 2026
Spoofed mail (DMARC)
Spoofed mail is rejected
Good
Who may send its mail (SPF)
Other senders soft-fail (~all)
Good
HTTPS certificate
Valid certificate · Google Trust Services
Good
HTTPS enforced (HSTS)
Not enforced
Weak
Security contact (security.txt)
No security.txt
Weak
Encrypted mail delivery (MTA-STS)
No MTA-STS policy
Weak
Signed DNS (DNSSEC)
Not signed
Weak
Certificate issuers (CAA)
Any authority may issue certificates
Weak
Full employer checkScam signs in adverts, mail records, visa registers, domain history
Sources: company registers, the Alion truth index, OFAC and EU sanctions lists, US WARN notices The domain: its DNS records, its site's headers and certificate.
Hiring
All open roles →Hiring slowly: few roles were posted lately.
Backend is the largest family, 13 of open roles.
22Posted in 30 days13% of open roles are fresh
<1%Remote roles1 of 171
56Roles in AI33% of open roles
12Hiring offices
Can they hire you from United States?by your location
Likely
97 open roles are in your country: you apply locally, no move needed.
No posting offers visa sponsorship. Remote roles: 1.
Time to fillmedian days to close a role
Alion signals0-100
Demand88
Pay49
Your chance44
How badly they need people, whether they pay, how realistic getting in is.
Open roles over time+16200%
Jul 20This week
Open roles a week: 1 then, 163 now
Are the postings real?
B
78 / 100Point72 scores B on the Alion truth index (A is best, E worst), measured over 170 open roles re-checked against its own hiring board: 28% look like ghost listings, 0% have gone stale and 0% are the same role posted again. Its roles close in a median of 138 days.
Ghost roles28%
Gone stale0%
Reposted0%
Where the openings areshare of open roles · trend
What postings ask forlanguages named in open roles
Degree asked
Bachelor's Degree 65%Master's Degree 25%Doctoral Degree (PhD) 10%
Experience asked: 4.8 years on average, in 115 postings. 96 postings state a degree.
Benefits named in postingsshare of open roles
Contract type
Internship 21Full-Time 3
Visa sponsorship: none statedRelocation: none stated
Source: the company's careers site, read by Alion several times a day; market medians from all open roles of the same family
Pays 48% above the market estimate for the same roles.
$220kMedianmarket estimate $149k
$150k – $250kTypical rangeUSD a year
$350kHighest paying roleSecurity Automation Lead
Pay by levelmiddle half of stated pay, median marked · dashed: market median $149k
$0$100k$200k$300k$400k
Source: the pay stated in the company's postings, normalised to USD a year
Visa
Full chapter →Named in the work visa registers of United States, United Kingdom.
83 ▲ 84%H-1B filings in 12 months
20Green card filings
$215kMedian offered salary
Who they sponsor
9 more occupations and the salary for eachVisa pass · 90 credits In the register as Point72, L.P., Stamford, CT (+1 more)
Other sponsors in the same field
See 88 open roles Alert me
US Department of Labor · latest filing Jun 30, 2026
A-ratedSponsor licence
Senior or Specialist Worker +1Visa route
12Open roles in United Kingdom
In the register as Point72 UK Limited, London
Other sponsors in the same field
Blackstone 226 rolesAres Management 219 rolesQube Research & Technologies 192 rolesiCapital 190 roles
See 12 open roles Alert me
UK Home Office · checked Nov 14, 2026
Footprint
Hiring in 12 cities in 8 countries.
12Cities
8Countries
New YorkBusiest site
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| Site | Type | Open roles | Hires most for | Engineering |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Stamford United States | Headquarters | 11 | Support, Legal, Finance | 9% |
| New York United States | Support & operations | 82 | Data Science, Analytics, Backend | 65% |
| Bengaluru India | Engineering / R&D | 36 | Backend, Support, DevOps | 72% |
| London United Kingdom | Engineering / R&D | 15 | Data Science, Analytics, Product | 53% |
| Hong Kong Hong Kong | Support & operations | 13 | Early Careers, Data Science, Administrative | 23% |
| Singapore Singapore | Engineering / R&D | 9 | Data Science, Analytics, Management | 67% |
| Warsaw Poland | Engineering / R&D | 7 | Backend, Data Science, Administrative | 71% |
| Chicago United States | Regional office | 5 | Data Science, Finance, Early Careers | 60% |
Source: office addresses in postings and company registers
Peers
Compare →Ranked #3 by open roles among its 11 closest peers.
| # | Company | HQ | Open roles | Size | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Susquehanna International Group | Bala Cynwyd, United States | 217 | 1001-5000 | |
| 2 | Millennium Management | New York, United States | 179 | 1001-5000 | |
| 3 | Point72 | Stamford, United States | 171 | 1001-5000 | |
| 4 | DRW | Chicago, United States | 145 | 1001-5000 | |
| 5 | Optiver | Amsterdam, Netherlands | 139 | 1001-5000 | |
| 6 | Tower Research Capital | New York, United States | 90 | 501-1000 | |
| 7 | Jump Trading | Chicago, United States | 82 | 1001-5000 | |
| 8 | Hudson River Trading | New York, United States | 74 | 1001-5000 |
Source: Alion's similar-companies engine (industry segments, technologies, headquarters country, size)
Tech stack
Technologies named in job postings at Point72 over the last 12 months, by layer, with the share of postings for each.
168Technologies in use
140Postings analysed
77/100Stack modernityAI adopter
Frameworks & librariesReact.js 6%Angular 4%PyTorch 4%ASP.NET Core 3%Scikit-learn 3%TensorFlow 2%TensorFlow C++ 2%LangChain 1%
DatabasesPostgreSQL 5%MS SQL 4%Redis 3%Amazon Aurora 1%Amazon Neptune 1%Neo4j 1%Amazon Redshift 1%Google BigQuery 1%
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Source: the technologies named in the company's postings and on its site
Milestones
Aug 3
First sales or marketing role AV Support Specialist
Jun 22
First role in France Cubist Execution Trader
Apr 2
First role in Japan 2027 Point72 Academy Investment Analyst Summer Internship Program - Japan
Aug 29, 2025
First role in Poland Data Engineer, Investment Services
Aug 13, 2025
First role in India Network Security Engineer
2014
Founded
Each milestone is dated by its source: registers, filings, the press
Newsroom
top 2%Web presenceof 133.2M domains by links, Common Crawl
Mar 11, 20252025
News · Business Insider
Early monthly returns for large multistrategy firms Millennium and Point72 show industry-wide pain thanks to market volatility.
Jun 20, 20242024
News · bloomberg.com
Jan 5, 20242024
News · New York Post
Major hedge fund moguls including Ken Griffin, Steve Cohen, and Izzy Englander failed to keep pace with the S&P 500 and the Nasdaq.
Sources: the outlets named on each headline, each story once