Senior Quant Researcher & Developer - Directional CME

QNT Partners; Dubai; On-site; AED 400,000 - 700,000; Full time

Job summary

QNT Partners in Dubai is seeking a Senior Quant Researcher / Quant Developer focused on directional strategies in CME futures. You will join a small, high-caliber team with access to capital and a path from researcher to PM, emphasizing robust research and practical live-trading readiness.

You will develop hypotheses, run backtests, and collaborate with backend engineers to deploy models in a live trading environment, with emphasis on monetizing existing strategies and expanding into independent

Qualifications

• Hands-on quantitative research or algorithmic trading experience.
• Directional strategies in futures, CME preferred.
• Strong Python for research and testing.
• Solid statistics, time series, and hypothesis testing.

Responsibilities

• Develop directional trading hypotheses and models for CME futures.
• Perform backtests, walk-forward analysis, Monte Carlo testing.
• Evaluate strategy robustness across data samples and market regimes.
• Collaborate with backend to integrate models into live trading.
• Prepare strategies for live launch with risk rules.
• Monitor execution considerations and risk metrics.

Skills

Directional research

Python

Quantitative research

CME futures

Tools

Backtesting framework

Job description

QNT Partners in Dubai is seeking a Senior Quant Researcher / Quant Developer focused on directional strategies in CME futures. You will join a small, high-caliber team with access to capital and a path from researcher to PM, emphasizing robust research and practical live-trading readiness.

You will develop hypotheses, run backtests, and collaborate with backend engineers to deploy models in a live trading environment, with emphasis on monetizing existing strategies and expanding into independent