Experienced Alpha Research Scientist

Edgestream; Princeton (NJ); On-site; USD 180,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

First-class benefits

Catered lunch and onsite gym

Investment opportunity

Job summary

Edgestream Partners seeks an Experienced Alpha Research Scientist to advance quantitative models of financial markets and contribute to systematic trading across the globe.

Located in Princeton, NJ, or New York, NY, this role offers deep collaboration with top researchers and the chance to turn rigorous science into real-world trading advantages. PhD required; strong analytical and programming skills; competitive compensation.

Qualifications

• PhD in a scientific or engineering discipline or equivalent experience.
• Track record of high achievement in scientific research.
• Strong analytical and mathematical abilities.
• Comfort with large data and programming.
• No knowledge of finance is required.

Responsibilities

• Develop scientific models of market behavior for trading strategies.
• Collaborate with physicists, mathematicians, ML experts to advance research.
• Translate research into scalable, live trading systems.
• Publish findings and present to stakeholders.

Skills

Analytical abilities

Programming

Handling large data

Education

PhD in scientific or engineering discipline

Job description

Job Title: Experienced Alpha Research Scientist

Edgestream Partners is a tight-knit team of scientists, engineers, and business professionals who devote our talents to developing quantitative models of financial markets and using them to trade systematically around the world and around the clock.

Edgestream’s culture has more in common with research laboratories and technology startups than with traditional finance. We prize curiosity, creativity, diligence, and intellectual honesty. We focus on the long term, working together to build elegant and general systems that endure and scale as we grow. And we incentivize our employees to cooperate and share ideas, because we know that compounding our efforts magnifies our achievements. The result is a company where smart, dedicated effort can have a major impact.

We’ve been in the business of managing hedge funds since 2003, and we’re still growing. We’re looking for talented, curious, and driven people who can grow with us in the years ahead.

About the Job

The Research group at Edgestream consists of highly skilled scientists and engineers, working in collaboration to unravel some of the finance’s hardest problems. Our ranks include physicists, mathematicians, biologists, machine learning experts, cryptographers, and theoretical computer scientists.

We are responsible for the creation of the scientific models of market behavior which drive trading in our funds. Our investment process is fully research driven, and new members of our team quickly find that they have the opportunity to contribute directly to the company’s bottom line.

Our work covers the full spectrum from basic research in statistics, information theory, and algorithms, to investigating new datasets, to building out our research platform, to implementation and analysis of live trading systems.

This position will be located in either Princeton, NJ or New York, NY.

Qualifications:

• PhD in a scientific or engineering discipline (or equivalent experience).
• Track record of high achievement in scientific research.
• Strong analytical and mathematical abilities.
• Comfort with large data and programming.
• No knowledge of finance is required.

Some of the benefits of working at Edgestream:

• Competitive salary, bonus, and incentive compensation based on overall company performance.
• Fantastic resources, accumulated over decades, for turning ideas into reality.
• Comprehensive, first-class benefits (including excellent medical and dental insurance, 401(k), HRA, FSA, life insurance, daily catered lunch, and an onsite gym).
• For qualified employees, the opportunity to invest in our funds.

Contact Info

E-mail: [e-mail].

Legal disclaimer: In compliance with federal law, all persons hired will be required to verify identity and eligibility to work in the United States and to complete the required employment eligibility verification document form upon hire.