London Quant Trader & Live-Strategy Architect

Ocean Red; Greater London; Hybrid; GBP 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Discretionary bonus

Health insurance

Pension

Holiday 31 days

Job summary

Ocean Red in London is seeking a systematic futures researcher to turn a CME trading platform into a reliably profitable trading business. The engineering is done: low latency, live strategy already in place, and a need to explain what worked and why.

You will bridge the platform and a live trading operation, designing signals and risk controls to profit on average within months, while learning and leading a future trading hire.

Qualifications

• Systematic strategies designed, implemented and tested in code, ideally on futures within a trading firm.
• Real futures experience, ideally CME: contract specs, margin, notional exposure, rolls and P&L.
• Strong statistics and the ability to distinguish real signals fromNoise in data.
• Understanding backtests biases (look-ahead, leakage, overfitting, survivorship and regime changes).
• Comfort owning work from idea to live in a small team with limited supervision.

Responsibilities

• Find and prove signals that work in live markets, not only in backtests.
• Specify a full order book simulator with the engineering team and use it as the gate for every strategy release.
• Set the rules for scaling capital: risk limits, drawdown thresholds and kill-switch criteria.
• Take day-to-day trading decisions off the Head of AI within agreed limits, and report on them.
• Raise the team's trading knowledge and, in time, help hire and lead the next trading hire.

Job description

Ocean Red in London is seeking a systematic futures researcher to turn a CME trading platform into a reliably profitable trading business. The engineering is done: low latency, live strategy already in place, and a need to explain what worked and why.

You will bridge the platform and a live trading operation, designing signals and risk controls to profit on average within months, while learning and leading a future trading hire.