Senior Quantitative Portfolio Strategist

Point72; Dubai; On-site; AED 900,000 - 1,300,000; Full time

Job summary

Cubist Systematic Strategies, an affiliate of Point72, seeks a senior quantitative role in Dubai to advance financial modeling and data-driven strategy design. You will lead research, develop predictive models, and evaluate performance across multiple asset classes.

Ideal candidates hold an advanced degree, 10+ years of research-experience, and a proven record in backtesting, data engineering, and market analysis. This is a demanding, strategic position with global reach.

Qualifications

• Advanced degree in a computational or analytical field.
• Extensive experience developing quantitative models for equities, futures and/or FX.
• Hands-on experience across the full research process: data, testing and backtesting.
• Innovative, curious and driven to understand financial markets.

Responsibilities

• Dynamically managing portfolio risk by evaluating historical and real-time performance.
• Overseeing automated trade execution and monitoring costs.
• Supervising a small team of researchers and developers daily.
• Designing and engineering advanced quantitative models for analysis and research.
• Performing research to acquire data sources for investment models.
• Developing quantitative algorithms to link diverse data sets.

Skills

Analytical thinking

Quantitative analysis

Team leadership

Backtesting

Education

Master's or PhD in a computational/analytical field

Job description

Cubist Systematic Strategies, an affiliate of Point72, seeks a senior quantitative role in Dubai to advance financial modeling and data-driven strategy design. You will lead research, develop predictive models, and evaluate performance across multiple asset classes.

Ideal candidates hold an advanced degree, 10+ years of research-experience, and a proven record in backtesting, data engineering, and market analysis. This is a demanding, strategic position with global reach.