Senior Quantitative Analyst: Systematic Strategies

Smartkarma; Hong Kong; On-site; HKD 900,000 - 1,300,000; Full time

Job summary

Smartkarma is seeking experienced systematic traders and quant researchers to deliver actionable investment ideas and robust, edge-providing signals to institutional clients. You will craft and backtest strategies, construct data-driven models, and maintain proprietary datasets and pipelines that differentiate our research offering.

Applicants should have a track record in research or trading for institutional audiences and be capable of communicating complex ideas clearly in published insights

Qualifications

• Extensive research, trading or investment experience for institutional clients (8 yrs+)
• Demonstrated quantitative track record and evidence of proprietary work (datasets, models, tooling, strategy research)
• Ability to write differentiated insights for professional investors (structured, concise, defensible)

Responsibilities

• Provide actionable trade and investment ideas based on statistically validated signals and market intuition.
• Develop factor, risk premia and alpha research.
• Create event-driven frameworks and playbooks for earnings, actions, and macro signals.
• Deliver cross-asset insights and robust analysis for clients, with high-touch service when needed.

Skills

Systematic trading

Quant research

Backtesting

Data cleaning

Statistical learning

Written communication

Cross-asset analysis

Tools

Python

SQL

Job description

Smartkarma is seeking experienced systematic traders and quant researchers to deliver actionable investment ideas and robust, edge-providing signals to institutional clients. You will craft and backtest strategies, construct data-driven models, and maintain proprietary datasets and pipelines that differentiate our research offering.

Applicants should have a track record in research or trading for institutional audiences and be capable of communicating complex ideas clearly in published insights