Macro & FX Quant Researcher: Futures Alpha

Man Group; Greater London; On-site; GBP 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Two annual Mankind days

Comprehensive benefits package

Job summary

Man Group, a global investment manager headquartered in London, seeks a quantified researcher for AHL Macro. You will develop and test alpha signals, manage data pipelines, and contribute to portfolio construction and risk oversight using Python and large datasets.

You will collaborate with researchers and technologists to translate research into live trading, while maintaining rigorous validation and robust performance checks across futures and FX strategies.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience researching and live trading alpha signals for futures and FX (essential).
• Strong experience with every step of research pipeline, including data acquisition, preliminary analysis, signal construction, robustness checking, monetisation, post live checks.
• Experience with portfolio construction, risk analysis.
• Strong coding skills and experience of handling large data sets using Python and its scientific stack.

Responsibilities

• Research and develop alpha signals for futures and FX.
• Execute and monitor live trading strategies and signals.
• Contribute to portfolio construction and risk analysis across strategies.

Skills

Researching alpha signals

Data handling pipelines

Portfolio construction

Python coding

Education

Mathematics / statistics / computing content

Tools

Python

Job description

Man Group, a global investment manager headquartered in London, seeks a quantified researcher for AHL Macro. You will develop and test alpha signals, manage data pipelines, and contribute to portfolio construction and risk oversight using Python and large datasets.

You will collaborate with researchers and technologists to translate research into live trading, while maintaining rigorous validation and robust performance checks across futures and FX strategies.