Equities Quantitative Trader

Quanta Search; New York (NY); On-site; USD 125,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading trading firm seeks an Equities Quantitative Trader to join their innovative team focusing on implementing quantitative strategies across diverse markets. The ideal candidate should possess substantial experience in high-frequency trading, strong programming abilities, and a passion for data-driven research. This role promises a dynamic opportunity to thrive in a collaborative environment, contributing to exciting trading initiatives.

Benefits

Excellent compensation package

Collaborative team environment

Qualifications

• 5+ years’ experience in quantitative investment research in High Frequency Trading.
• Excited about contributing within a collaborative team environment.
• Ability to communicate research results and methodologies.

Responsibilities

• Research, design and implement new quantitative trading strategies.
• Generate alphas from various traditional and alternative datasets.
• Apply scientific algorithms for statistical model development.

Skills

Quantitative investment research

Strong programming skills

Excellent communication skills

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Our client is a diversified trading firm with over 3 decades of experience bringing sophisticated technology and exceptional people together to operate in markets around the world. They value autonomy and the ability to quickly pivot to capture opportunities, so they operate using their own capital and trading at their own risk.

Headquartered in Chicago with offices throughout the U.S., Canada, Europe, and Asia, they trade a variety of asset classes including Fixed Income, ETFs, Equities, FX, Commodities and Energy across all major global markets. They have also leveraged their expertise and technology to expand into three non-traditional strategies: real estate, venture capital and cryptoassets.

The Team

You will join a trading team responsible for managing systematic strategies in Equities. The team focuses on both latency sensitive and non-latency sensitive investment opportunities across geographies and holding periods. The team is responsible for the complete lifecycle of quantitative investment process, research, development, and trading of systematic strategies. The team strongly emphasizes cutting-edge innovative scientific research and is looking to add an individual who is enthusiastic about contributing within a team environment.

Responsibilities

The main responsibility of the role will be to research, design and implement new quantitative trading strategies. This will entail generating alphas from a variety of traditional and alternative datasets using rigorous statistical methods. To be successful in this role, the ideal candidate will need to build a deep understanding of the underlying datasets and be able to apply the latest scientific algorithms for statistical model development.

Qualifications

The ideal candidate will be excited about working in a collaborative team environment, with an emphasis on team performance. We also require the following:

• 5+ years’ experience in quantitative investment research in High Frequency Trading in the US, Canadian, or European Markets is required
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills to report research results/methodologies required
• Strong programming skills with the ability to explore large datasets required
  
  

Excellent compensation package. The role can sit anywhere in the country.

Seniority level

• Seniority level

  Mid-Senior level

Employment type

• Employment type

  Full-time

Job function

• Job function

  Finance and Sales

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