Quantitative Analyst – Risk

Trading Interview; India; On-site; INR 1,800,000 - 3,000,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive compensation

Annual international team outing

Fully covered commuting expenses

Best-in-class health insurance

Delightful catered breakfasts and lun​

4 week annual leaves along with market

Gym and sports club memberships

Regular social events and clubs

Job summary

Graviton Research Capital in Gurugram seeks a Quant Analyst - Risk to join our fast-paced team. You will work with senior traders to operate and refine automated trading strategies and analyze production trades to identify risk and performance improvements.

Your responsibilities include writing scalable Python and C++ scripts, building monitoring tools, and deploying updates with the trading desk. A strong analytical mindset and solid coding skills are essential.

Qualifications

• Degree in engineering, mathematics, or computer science from a top-ranked university.
• 3+ years of Python and Shell/Bash scripting experience.
• Basic knowledge of Linux and shell command-line tools.
• Strong analytical skills and a strong work ethic.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with senior traders to operate and improve automated trading strategies.
• Analyze production trades and develop ideas to enhance strategies.
• Implement monitoring tools to highlight issues in production strategies.
• Write scalable scripts in C++ and Python to analyze production strategies for risk attribution.
• Build post-trade analytics across statistics for risk assessment.
• Manage deployments and release cycles with senior traders.

Skills

Analytical thinking

Problem solving

Strong work ethic

Education

Bachelor's degree in Engineering/Mathematics/CS

Tools

Python

Shell scripting

Linux

Job description

Graviton is a privately funded quantitative trading firm striving for excellence in financial markets' research. We are seeking a Quant Analyst - Risk for our team in Gurugram. Graviton trades 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.

As a Quant Analyst - Risk you will be responsible

• Work as a team with senior traders to operate and implement/improve our automated trading strategies.
• Analysing production trades and developing ideas to improve our trading strategies.
• Implement monitoring tools which highlight potential issues in the production strategies.
• Write comprehensive and scalable scripts in both C++ and python analysing production strategies for risk
• attribution, performance break-ups along various buckets and so on.
• Build ‘cool’ scalable post-trade systems analysing multitude of statistics across all production strategies.
• Implementing tools for analysing Market Data centrally across various exchanges.
• Managing deployments and release cycle, with working along with a senior trader.

Requirements :

• Possess a degree in a highly analytical field, such as Engineering, Mathematics, or Computer Science from top-ranked universities
• 3+ years of experience in Python, Shell/Bash scripting.
• Basic knowledge of Linux and shell command-line tools
• Basic programming and scripting (Python/Shell) skills
• Strong problem-solving, and analytical skills
• Have a strong work ethics

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…"