Electronic Trading HedgeFund Quantitative Researcher

Quanta Search

$100K — $150K *
Finance & Insurance
Less than 5 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • Background in Machine Learning and Statistics
  • Strong Python experience
  • Experience with C++ or another lower-level language is a plus
  • Excellent problem-solving abilities

Responsibilities

  • Partner with internal trading teams to enhance market prediction models
  • Investigate and design data mining and machine learning algorithms
  • Conduct research to model and forecast future price actions and volatility
  • Develop and improve scalable quantitative research frameworks using Python and C++
  • Research methods for capturing risk exposure and evaluating performance across asset classes
  • Expand the current revenue base by exploring new opportunities

Benefits

  • Opportunity to work with a cutting-edge market simulator platform
  • Engagement in impactful research projects directly influencing trading strategies
  • Collaboration with diverse internal teams, enhancing exposure to various trading practices
  • Access to advanced tools and technologies for data analysis
  • Professional growth opportunities within a centralized research team
Full Job Description
This person will be part of a centralized team that is responsible for the Market Simulator research tool sets and data sets that are utilized by the client's trading community. The simulation platform is a unique, high performance system which provides traders a competitive edge to successfully optimize and execute their strategies.

What you'll do:

You will be actively involved in research projects associated with latency and available liquidity prediction as well as algorithmic improvement based on requirements provided by our internal trading teams. You will need to be successful at determining efficient methods to store and analyze very large amounts of data and develop tools to evaluate the large volume of market data to help improve trading strategies performance.
  • Partner directly with the internal trading teams to build and enhance market prediction models utilizing quantitative problem solving and advanced statistical techniques.
  • Investigating and designing data mining and machine learning algorithms
  • Conduct research for the purpose of modeling and forecasting future price actions and volatility.
  • Responsible for developing and improving scalable quantitative research frameworks using Python, C++, and other software systems.
  • Research new methods for capturing risk exposure, evaluating risk/reward and performance attribution across multiple asset classes.
  • Build and expand the current revenue base by developing and exploring new opportunities.

Skills you will need:
  • A background in Machine Learning and Statistics
  • Strong Python experience
  • Experience with C++ or another lower level language a plus
  • Excellent problem solving abilities

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