Senior Quant Portfolio Strategist & Team Lead

Point72; England; On-site; GBP 180,000 - 240,000; Full time

Job summary

Cubist Systematic Strategies, affiliated with Point72, seeks a senior quantitative researcher to lead the development of automated trading models and risk controls. You will oversee a team of researchers and developers, advance data-driven investment strategies, and contribute to backtesting and performance monitoring across equities, futures, and FX.

This role requires deep quantitative expertise and strong curiosity about markets.

Qualifications

• Advanced degree in a computational or analytical field is required.
• Minimum of 10 years’ experience developing, researching or implementing quantitative models for equities, futures and/or FX.
• Hands-on experience with the full research process: data collection, analysis, testing, prototyping, backtesting, and performance monitoring.
• Innovative, intellectually driven, with an intense curiosity about financial markets and human behavior.

Responsibilities

• Dynamically manage portfolio risk by evaluating historical and real-time strategy performance.
• Oversee automated trade execution and monitor transaction costs.
• Supervise a small team of researchers and developers on a daily basis.
• Design, research, and manage sophisticated investment strategies using advanced quantitative models.
• Perform research to acquire historical and production data sources for investment models.
• Develop quantitative algorithms to link diverse data sets from providers.
• Engineer models to forecast risk, return, and trading costs for portfolios.
• Use quantitative models to value securities.
• Conduct ongoing quantitative research to expand into new markets.
• Develop aspects of successful statistical models focusing on forecasting and optimization.
• Expand trading universe and volume across exchanges and products.

Skills

Quantitative modeling

Backtesting

Data analysis

Research

Education

Masters or PhD in computational/analytical field

Job description

Cubist Systematic Strategies, affiliated with Point72, seeks a senior quantitative researcher to lead the development of automated trading models and risk controls. You will oversee a team of researchers and developers, advance data-driven investment strategies, and contribute to backtesting and performance monitoring across equities, futures, and FX.

This role requires deep quantitative expertise and strong curiosity about markets.