Trading Strategy Engineer: AI-Driven Execution & Analytics

Cox Worldwide Funds plc; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 125,000 - 155,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

Retirement plan

Commuter benefits

Wellness program

Backup care

Matching gifts

Life insurance

Disability insurance

Job summary

Dodge & Cox in San Francisco is seeking a Trading Strategy Associate to join the Equity Trading team. This 2–4 year role focuses on implementing tactical and investment decisions in markets globally, collaborating with investment committee members, research analysts, and strategy teams to source liquidity and improve execution.

You will apply quantitative methods and AI/ML techniques, developing pre-, intra-, and post-trade analyses for Equity and FX and automating execution performance

Qualifications

• Master's degree in financial engineering, data science, or another quantitative field.
• 2 years of relevant work experience in finance preferred, or exceptional internship.
• Knowledge of trading algorithm design and analysis.
• Knowledge of and/or exposure to trade executions and/or execution performance analysis.
• Strong programming foundation using Python, R, MATLAB or C++.
• Knowledge of AI/ML methods with depth in deep learning and reinforcement learning.

Responsibilities

• Research the properties of trading algorithms and perform in-depth analyses of global market micro-structure.
• Analyze market and trading data and create frameworks to evaluate existing trading strategies and tools.
• Advise and consult with execution traders on execution strategy and tactics.
• Develop pre-trade, intra-trade, and post-trade execution analysis for trading in Equity and FX markets.
• Develop and automate execution performance measurement framework and reporting.
• Develop and implement trading signals/models to help improve execution performance.

Skills

Python

R

MATLAB

C++

Statistics

Machine learning

SQL

Reinforcement learning

Education

Master's degree in financial engineering, data science, or other quantitative field

Tools

PyTorch

TensorFlow

Job description

Dodge & Cox in San Francisco is seeking a Trading Strategy Associate to join the Equity Trading team. This 2–4 year role focuses on implementing tactical and investment decisions in markets globally, collaborating with investment committee members, research analysts, and strategy teams to source liquidity and improve execution.

You will apply quantitative methods and AI/ML techniques, developing pre-, intra-, and post-trade analyses for Equity and FX and automating execution performance