Quant Research Developer - Build Signals for Live Trading

Quant Capital; Greater London; On-site; GBP 35,000 - 55,000; Full time

Job summary

Quant Capital is seeking a highly technical graduate to join its trading research team as a Research Developer in London. You will work on real trading problems, applying statistics, machine learning, and production-grade coding to uncover signals in noisy market data and to turn research ideas into live automated trading strategies.

The role focuses on practical research: testing hypotheses, building models, and analyzing results to improve trading outcomes.

Qualifications

• Strong knowledge of statistics, probability or machine learning.
• Solid coding ability in Python, C++ or Java.
• Graduate from a highly technical degree such as computer science, maths, statistics, engineering or physics.

Responsibilities

• Research predictive signals using large, noisy financial datasets.
• Build and test models for automated trading strategies.
• Write production-quality code in Python, C++ or Java.
• Analyse strategy performance and understand what is driving results.
• Work with researchers to move ideas from prototype to live trading.
• Improve datasets, tools and research workflows.
• Take ownership of work from initial idea through to measured outcome.

Skills

Statistics

Probability

Machine learning

Python

C++

Java

Education

Technical degree

Job description

Quant Capital is seeking a highly technical graduate to join its trading research team as a Research Developer in London. You will work on real trading problems, applying statistics, machine learning, and production-grade coding to uncover signals in noisy market data and to turn research ideas into live automated trading strategies.

The role focuses on practical research: testing hypotheses, building models, and analyzing results to improve trading outcomes.