Quantitative Researcher – Commodities

Trading Interview; Greater London; On-site; GBP 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

DRW, a diversified trading firm, seeks an experienced Quant Researcher to join its global commodities trading team to aid alpha generation, research, development, and analytics infrastructure.

You will develop systematic trading strategies, enhance data pipelines, and analyze large datasets, using AI and LLMs to inform trading decisions. The ideal candidate holds an advanced quantitative degree and has 2+ years in alpha roles, with strong communication skills.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s, Master’s or PhD in math, statistics, physics, engineering or CS.
• Experience using AI and LLMs.
• Minimum of two years' experience in alpha generating role.
• Experience working with large datasets, data cleaning, preprocessing, and feature engineering.
• Excellent programming and scripting skills.
• Experience working independently and delivering results.
• Excellent written and oral communication skills, experience communicating complex ideas clearly and concisely to peers and stakeholders.
• Positive, team focused attitude.

Responsibilities

• Developing systematic trading strategies and alpha generating signals across commodity markets.
• Enhancing data collection procedures to support data pipelines for research/trading.
• Analyze large, diverse datasets to identify trends and build/maintain models for trading decisions, including AI/LLMs.
• Extract and organize data from multiple sources for quantitative analysis in support of trading.
• Assist in developing analytical tools.
• Collaborate with stakeholders at each project stage and communicate results to varied audiences.
• Create and maintain post-trade diagnostics tools across strategies.

Skills

Quantitative analysis

Communication

Independent work

Team collaboration

Education

Bachelor's/Master/PhD in a quantitative field

Tools

Python

R

SQL

AI/LLM tooling

Job description

DRW is a diversified trading firm with over 3 decades of experience bringing sophisticated technology and exceptional people together to operate in markets around the world. We value autonomy and the ability to quickly pivot to capture opportunities, so we operate using our own capital and trading at our own risk.

Headquartered in Chicago with offices throughout the U.S., Canada, Europe, and Asia, we trade a variety of asset classes including Fixed Income, ETFs, Equities, FX, Commodities and Energy across all major global markets. We have also leveraged our expertise and technology to expand into three non-traditional strategies: real estate, venture capital and cryptoassets.

We operate with respect, curiosity and open minds. The people who thrive here share our belief that it’s not just what we do that matters–it's how we do it. DRW is a place of high expectations, integrity, innovation and a willingness to challenge consensus.

DRW are looking for an experienced Quant Researcher to join our global commodities trading team to aid in alpha generation, research, development, and maintenance of analytics infrastructure.

Responsibilities:

• Developing systematic trading strategies and alpha generating signals across commodity markets
• Enhancing data collection procedures to support improved design, development and maintenance of data pipelines to be used in research/trading
• Analyze large, diverse datasets to identify trends as well as building and maintaining models to support trading decisions. Including the use of AI and LLM’s
• Extract and organize data from a number of source options, performing quantitative analysis in support of trading
• Assist in the development of analytical tools
• Collaborate with stakeholders at each stage of project
• Communicate projects and results to audiences with different backgrounds
• Create and maintain post-trade diagnostics tools across various strategies

Qualifications:

• A bachelor’s, master’s, or PhD in mathematics, statistics, physics, engineering, computer science or related field
• Experience using AI and LLM’s
• Passion and interest for a quant researcher role solving real-world business problems
• Minimum of two years' experience in alpha generating role
• Experience working with large datasets, data cleaning, preprocessing, and feature engineering
• Experience building, validating, deploying, monitoring, and updating predictive models
• Excellent programming and scripting skills
• Experience working independently and delivering results
• Excellent written and oral communication skills, experience communicating complex ideas clearly and concisely to peers and stakeholders
• Positive, team focused attitude

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