Quantitative Researcher: AI-Driven Signals & Backtesting

QCP Group; Singapore; On-site; SGD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Primrose Capital Management, a global quantitative digital assets fund manager, is seeking a highly analytical researcher in Singapore to join the inhouse research team. You will enhance the research platform, generate data ideas, and build AI-driven workflows to accelerate analysis, backtesting, and experimentation.

Ideal candidates hold a PhD or equivalent in a quantitative field, are proficient in Python and SQL (Java a plus), and bring strong modeling skills.

Qualifications

• PhD or equivalent in a quantitative field with strong research background.
• Proven ability to translate research into quantitative trading ideas.
• Strong foundation in statistics, probability, and modeling.

Responsibilities

• Work on the inhouse quantitative research platform and enhance existing and build new features.
• Continuously generate new data ideas, alpha ideas, and quantitative research hypotheses.
• Build and improve automated research workflows using AI agents to accelerate data analysis, signal discovery, backtesting, and experimentation.

Skills

Python

SQL

Statistics

Optimization

AI tools & agents

Agentic design patterns

Backtesting

Financial markets

Research ideas

Education

MPhil or PhD in Physics, CS, Math, Statistics, Engineering

Tools

Java

Job description

Primrose Capital Management, a global quantitative digital assets fund manager, is seeking a highly analytical researcher in Singapore to join the inhouse research team. You will enhance the research platform, generate data ideas, and build AI-driven workflows to accelerate analysis, backtesting, and experimentation.

Ideal candidates hold a PhD or equivalent in a quantitative field, are proficient in Python and SQL (Java a plus), and bring strong modeling skills.