Lead Quantitative Portfolio Strategist

Point72; Sydney; On-site; AUD 260,000 - 340,000; Full time

Job summary

Cubist Systematic Strategies, an affiliate of Point72, seeks a senior quantitative researcher to lead development and evaluation of investment models across equities, futures, FX. The role involves designing advanced algorithms, backtesting, and data-driven strategy optimization.

Ideal candidate has 10+ years of experience in quantitative research, strong curiosity about markets, and hands-on experience with end-to-end research processes and automated trading concepts.

Qualifications

• Advanced degree (Masters or PhD) in a computational or analytical field.
• Minimum of 10 years’ experience developing, researching or implementing quantitative models for equities, futures and/or FX.
• Hands on experience with all aspects of the research process, including data collection, analysis, testing, prototyping, backtesting, and performance monitoring.
• Innovative, intellectually driven, with an intense curiosity about financial markets and human behavior.

Responsibilities

• Dynamically managing portfolio risk by evaluating historical and real-time strategy performance.
• Overseeing automated trade execution and monitoring transaction costs.
• Supervising a small team of researchers and developers on a daily basis.
• Designing, researching, and managing sophisticated investment strategies by creating and engineering advance quantitative financial computer modeling systems to aid in analysis and research.
• Performing research to acquire historical and production data sources needed to build investment models.
• Designing and developing quantitative mathematical algorithms to link the diverse data sets from various providers.
• Engineering investment models that will make the buy and sell recommendations for the portfolios using advanced quantitative mathematic statistics and investment theory to design and program strategies that explicitly forecast risk, return, and trading costs.
• Using quantitative models to value securities.
• Conducting ongoing, cutting-edge quantitative research and analysis to enhance existing strategies and to expand into new markets.
• Developing aspects of successful statistical models, focusing on forecasting and optimization.
• Expanding trading universe and volume and expanding to other exchanges and products.

Skills

Quantitative modeling

Backtesting

Data analysis

Research methodology

Team leadership

Automated trading systems

Education

Master's or PhD in computational/analytical field

Job description

Cubist Systematic Strategies, an affiliate of Point72, seeks a senior quantitative researcher to lead development and evaluation of investment models across equities, futures, FX. The role involves designing advanced algorithms, backtesting, and data-driven strategy optimization.

Ideal candidate has 10+ years of experience in quantitative research, strong curiosity about markets, and hands-on experience with end-to-end research processes and automated trading concepts.