Research Scientist à Grande-Bretagne

PIMCO is a global leader in active fixed income with deep expertise across public and private markets. We invest our clients' capital across a range of fixed income and credit opportunities, leveraging our decades of experience navigating complex debt markets. Our flexible capital base and deep relationships with issuers have helped us become one of the world's largest providers of traditional and nontraditional solutions for companies that need financing and investors who seek strong risk-adjusted returns.

Since 1971, our people have shaped our organization through a high-performance inclusive culture, in which we celebrate diverse thinking. We invest in our people and strive to imprint our CORE values of Collaboration, Openness, Responsibility and Excellence. We believe each of us is here to help others succeed and this has led to PIMCO being recognized as an innovator, industry thought leader and trusted advisor to our clients.

JOB DESCRIPTION

AI solutions is a team of Quantitative Research Analysts that focus primarily on client portfolio and asset management issues from an AI and quantitative perspective. The team's mandate is broad in nature and covers a wide array of topics of AI based solutions for use in a variety of internal and client facing applications. The group collaborates with multiple parts of the firm, including Product Strategy, Account Management, Legal and Compliance, Human Resources, Procurement.

Our Analysts take the lead ownership role for maintaining and growing the team's IP. We achieve this by operating on three drivers: first, they develop all the quantitative models that power the team's systems and applications. Second, they work directly with the internal stakeholders or the clients to test and optimize the solutions developed and thirdly, they work with our technology teams to deploy these solutions once ready.

Location: Newport Beach, London or New York

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Designing, developing, and improving the suite of AI and other quantitative applications
• Collaborating with core Technology at PIMCO to ensure the applications are scalable, cloud-enabled, and deliverable within PIMCO's digital ecosystem internally and externally.
• Mentorship of junior quants, AI engineers and technologists in the team

• Quantitative Master's degree (artificial intelligence, data science, financial engineering, computer science, or other technically demanding program such as theoretical physics or math)
• Bachelor's degree focus in Finance, Economics, Computer Science or other technical degree is preferred
• Excellent programming skills in Python
• Comfortable working with large data sets, both structured and unstructured
• Formal training and strong interest in some of the following areas: artificial intelligence, data science, machine learning, finance theory
• Effective communication skills, both oral and written
• Good exposure to and knowledge of financial markets
• Ethical, intellectually curious, collaborative, organized, flexible, high energy, self-starter, accountable, humble

PIMCO follows a total compensation approach when rewarding employees which includes a base salary and a discretionary bonus. Base salary is the fixed component of compensation that is determined by core job responsibilities, relevant experience, internal level, and market factors. The discretionary bonus is used to award performance and therefore is determined by company, business, team, and individual performance.

Salary Range: $175,000.00 - $240,000.00

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PIMCO recruits and hires qualified candidates without regard to race, national origin, ancestry, religion (including religious dress and grooming practices), sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, or related medical conditions), sexual orientation, gender (including gender identity and expression), age, military or veteran status, disability (physical or mental), any factor prohibited by law, and as such affirms in policy and practice to support and promote the concept of equal employment opportunity and affirmative action, in accordance with all applicable federal, state, provincial and municipal laws. The company also prohibits discrimination on other basis such as medical condition or marital status under applicable laws.