Front-Office Quant Strategist: Real-Time P&L, AI & Signals

Mondrian Alpha; England; On-site; GBP 140,000 - 210,000; Full time

Job summary

Mondrian Alpha, a leading hedge fund, seeks a Quantitative Strategist to join its Front Office Quantitative Development & Strategy team. The role sits alongside Portfolio Managers and investment teams to build quantitative tools for trading, alpha generation and risk management across a multi-asset platform.

You will develop real-time P&L and risk systems, implement trading signals, create backtesting frameworks and apply AI to enhance research workflows.

Qualifications

• 4+ years in a front-office Quant Dev, Quant Strategist or Quant Research role.
• Advanced degree in a quantitative discipline as listed.
• Strong Python development skills with scientific computing libraries.
• Experience developing quantitative research, trading or risk systems.
• Strong SQL skills and large financial datasets experience.
• Excellent problem-solving and communication with technical and investment stakeholders.
• Exposure to C#, R or other languages is beneficial.
• Interest in applying AI/ML to quantitative research environments.

Responsibilities

• Design and develop real-time P&L and risk systems for front-office trading and portfolio management.
• Build interactive analytics and decision-support tools for PMs and investment teams.
• Partner with PMs to implement quantitative trading signals across asset classes.
• Develop backtesting frameworks and quantitative models for alpha generation and risk management.
• Apply AI/ML techniques to improve research workflows and portfolio analytics.
• Translate investment problems into scalable technical solutions.
• Contribute to the firm’s quantitative technology platform through high-quality software engineering.

Skills

Python development

Quantitative research

Problem solving

Communication with stakeholders

AI/ML interest

Education

Advanced degree in Mathematics/Physics/Engineering/CS/Mathematical Finance

Tools

Pandas

NumPy

SQL

C#

R

Job description

Mondrian Alpha, a leading hedge fund, seeks a Quantitative Strategist to join its Front Office Quantitative Development & Strategy team. The role sits alongside Portfolio Managers and investment teams to build quantitative tools for trading, alpha generation and risk management across a multi-asset platform.

You will develop real-time P&L and risk systems, implement trading signals, create backtesting frameworks and apply AI to enhance research workflows.