Quantitative Researcher

Augmentti; Greater London; On-site; GBP 70,000 - 120,000; Full time

Job summary

Augmentti seeks a senior systematic quant researcher to own the full research pipeline—from signal generation and testing to portfolio-level analysis and live deployment. You will work across equities, futures, FX, credit, and commodities, addressing signal decay, regime shifts and cross-asset dynamics.

London focus, with opportunity to engage across major hubs (NYC, Singapore, HK, Chicago). You’ll translate ideas into backtested strategies and production-ready Python and C++ code in a

Qualifications

• 3–15 years of experience in a systematic trading environment (hedge fund, prop trader, or related research role).
• Built and shipped predictive models against real market data, not just in simulation.
• Rigorous research methodology and data-driven intuition to generate novel ideas.

Responsibilities

• Own the full research pipeline: signal generation, testing, portfolio-level analysis, and production deployment with live capital.
• Collaborate across asset classes and research teams to defend ideas using robust backtests and live results.

Skills

Time-series analysis

Factor modelling

Signal research

Python

C++

Cross-asset experience

Job description

This is a systematic quant researcher role within a cross-asset trading environment spanning holding periods from intraday (mins/hours) to 5 days (this is the sweet spot, some do hold for up to months). You will own the full research pipeline: signal generation, testing, portfolio-level analysis, and work with live capital.

The asset universe is broad: equities, futures, FX, credit, commodities, and ETF structures all feature, but the team still have a lot to do, and therefore there is still a lot of opportunity to make an impact. The problems are genuinely hard: signal decay, regime sensitivity, execution friction, and cross-asset correlation structure all matter here. You will be expected to form views, test them rigorously, and defend them.

The infrastructure

You will have access to data and compute infrastructure at a scale very few firms can match. Research custom trading models to compete with the scale of frontier LLMs, consuming trillions of tokens of market data. Experimentation here is not constrained by tooling, it is constrained by the quality of your ideas.

How the team operates

Research here is a shared endeavour, not a collection of siloed books. Every researcher has full visibility into every active strategy's code. There are no black boxes, no protected territories. The expectation is that collective understanding produces better research than individual ownership.

Strategies are sized for their contribution to the portfolio as a whole, not as standalone entities. That means your work is evaluated at the system level, which rewards researchers who think carefully about covariance, capacity, and cross-strategy interaction, not just isolated backtest Sharpe.

What we're looking for

You have 3-15 years of experience in a systematic trading environment, a hedge fund, prop trading firm, or closely related research role. You have built and shipped predictive models against real market data, not just in simulation. You have a rigorous research methodology, and are driven by data and intuition to come up with novel ideas, and augment existing ones.

Core requirements:

• Strong statistical foundations: time-series analysis, factor modelling, signal research
• Python proficiency; C++ experience strongly preferred (you will be interacting with C++ day to day)
• Experience across more than one asset class, or a clear track record in one with genuine appetite to work cross-asset
• Ability to take a research idea from hypothesis to backtested strategy to production-ready code
• Comfort operating in an environment where your work is visible and subject to peer scrutiny

The right mindset:

You are intellectually honest about what your models do and don't explain. You are more interested in understanding market structure than in protecting alpha. You find the idea of a shared codebase appealing rather than threatening.

Where?

London is a focus area, but realistically anywhere across the major financial hubs (NYC, Singapore, Hong Kong, Chicago).