Quantitative Strategist - Hedge Fund

Mondrian Alpha; New York (NY); On-site; USD 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Mondrian Alpha is seeking a Quantitative Strategist for its New York office to support trading through quantitative tools and analytics. This role involves collaborating with trading and engineering teams to design and validate risk and pricing models while operating in a fast-paced environment. The ideal candidate has 2–10 years of quantitative experience, strong skills in Python/C++, and a thorough understanding of financial markets. The position requires excellent communication skills and adaptability to changing market conditions.

Qualifications

• 2–10 years of experience in a quantitative role.
• Broad understanding of financial markets and data.
• Strong communication skills to work with traders and engineers.

Responsibilities

• Support the design and evolution of risk, P&L, pricing, and analytics tools.
• Translate business requirements into quantitative specifications for engineering teams.
• Analyze market data to ensure consistent results.

Skills

Quantitative analysis

Python

C++

Communication skills

Financial market understanding

Job description

A global hedge fund is looking to add a quantitative strategist to a front-office quantitative analytics group supporting trading across multiple asset classes. This role sits at the intersection of trading, quantitative analytics, and engineering, with a focus on ensuring quantitative tools, models, and systems are correctly designed, implemented, and used across the business.

This position is well suited for a strong quantitative profile who enjoys working across markets, data, and large systems, and who is comfortable acting as a bridge between traders, quants, and engineers in a fast-moving trading environment.

Responsibilities

• Act as a quantitative partner to trading and analytics teams, supporting the design and evolution of risk, P&L, pricing, and analytics tools.
• Translate business and trading requirements into clear quantitative and functional specifications for engineering teams.
• Work closely with technologists to validate analytics and models, and help guide prototypes into scalable, production-ready systems.
• Analyze market data and system outputs to ensure results are intuitive, consistent, and aligned with market behavior.
• Coordinate across trading, quantitative, and technology stakeholders to ensure quantitative solutions are delivered accurately and efficiently.
• Maintain and enhance existing analytics and tools as market conditions, products, and systems evolve.

Requirements

• 2–10 years of experience in a quantitative role (e.g. QA, QR, QD, or desk-facing analytics).
• Broad understanding of financial markets and market data.
• Proficiency in Python and/or C++; ability to work with large analytics libraries and data-driven systems.
• Comfortable interpreting risk and P&L outputs and assessing whether results make sense in real trading conditions.
• Strong communication skills and the ability to work effectively across traders, quants, and engineers.
• Enjoys operating in a fast-paced, front-office environment with frequent context switching.

To apply, directly submit your CV to this job posting, or email to [e-mail].