Quantitative Analyst

Trading Interview; India; On-site; INR 1,000,000 - 1,500,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Annual international team outing

Fully covered commuting expenses

Best-in-class health insurance

Catered breakfasts and lunches

4 week annual leave

Gym and sports club memberships

Regular social events and clubs

Job summary

Graviton Research Capital, a leading high-frequency and quantitative trading firm based in Gurugram, is seeking a Quantitative Analyst to develop and enhance trading strategies. You will analyze complex financial data and build predictive models while collaborating with traders and technology teams.

The ideal candidate should have a degree in Engineering, Mathematics, or Computer Science, along with programming skills in C++ and Python.

Qualifications

• Hold a degree in a highly analytical field from top tier global institutes.
• Basic familiarity with Linux and command-line tools.
• Advanced mathematical and quantitative reasoning skills.
• Excellent communication skills for complex technical concepts.

Responsibilities

• Develop and enhance high-frequency trading strategies.
• Analyze financial data and build predictive models.
• Work alongside traders to enhance automated trading strategies.
• Design and implement monitoring tools for trading strategies.
• Develop post-trade systems to analyze strategy performance.
• Create tools for centralized market data analysis.
• Oversee deployment and release cycles of trading systems.

Skills

C++

Python

Perl

Shell scripting

Linux basics

Quantitative reasoning

Problem-solving

Communication

Education

Degree in Engineering, Mathematics, or Computer Science

Job description

Graviton is a privately funded quantitative trading firm striving for excellence in financial markets' research. We trade across a multitude of asset classes and trading venues using a gamut of concepts and techniques ranging from time series analysis, filtering, classification, stochastic models, pattern recognition to statistical inference analysing terabytes of data to come up with ideas to identify pricing anomalies in financial markets.

Position Overview:

As a Quantitative Analyst, you will play a crucial role in developing and enhancing high-frequency trading strategies. You will analyze complex financial data, build predictive models, and collaborate with our trading and technology teams to drive performance improvements. Your work will involve applying advanced statistical techniques and programming skills to solve challenging problems in a fast-paced trading environment.

Your Objectives:

• Work alongside senior traders to implement and enhance automated trading strategies, ensuring they operate efficiently and effectively.
• Analyze production trades to identify areas for improvement. Develop and propose enhancements to trading strategies based on your findings.
• Design and implement monitoring tools to detect potential issues in production strategies, ensuring timely identification and resolution.
• Write comprehensive, scalable scripts in C++ and Python to analyze production strategies, focusing on risk attribution, performance breakdowns, and other critical metrics.
• Develop innovative and scalable post-trade systems to analyze a wide range of statistics across all production strategies, enhancing overall strategy performance.
• Create and implement tools for centralized market data analysis across various exchanges, improving data integration and insights.
• Oversee the deployment and release cycles of trading systems, collaborating with senior traders to ensure smooth and effective rollouts.

Your Skills & Talents:

• Hold a degree in a highly analytical field such as Engineering, Mathematics, or Computer Science from top tier global institutes.
• Basic familiarity with Linux and command-line tools, along with foundational programming skills in C/C++ and scripting experience in Perl/Python/Shell.
• Demonstrate strong problem-solving abilities, with advanced mathematical and quantitative reasoning skills.
• Exhibit excellent communication skills, with the ability to clearly convey complex technical concepts.
• Possess a strong quantitative mindset with a keen interest in data-driven problem-solving.

Good to have skills:

• Experience with high-frequency trading systems and infrastructure.
• Knowledge of market microstructure and high-frequency trading strategies.
• Familiarity with low-latency programming and optimization techniques.

Our open and collaborative work culture gives you the freedom to innovate and experiment. Our cubicle free offices, non-hierarchical work culture and insistence to hire the very best creates a melting pot for great ideas and technological innovations. Everyone on the team is approachable, there is nothing better than working with friends!

Our perks have you covered.

• Competitive compensation
• Annual international team outing
• Fully covered commuting expenses
• Best-in-class health insurance
• Delightful catered breakfasts and lunches
• 4 week annual leaves along with market holidays
• Gym and sports club memberships
• Regular social events and clubs

Graviton Research Capital is a high-frequency and quantitative trading firm founded in 2014 by IIT-Delhi classmates Ankit Gupta and Nishil Gupta. Based in Gurugram, it has emerged as "the fastest…"