Junior Quantitative Researcher
Flow Traders is a global technology-enabled multi-asset liquidity provider and market maker.
About Flow Traders
Flow Traders provides continuous on-exchange and off-exchange liquidity across exchange-traded products, fixed income, FX, commodities, and digital assets using proprietary trading technology. Its digital-assets business, active since 2017, includes crypto ETP market making, OTC trading, liquidity provision, and DeFi connectivity.
Skills
Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will design, build, optimize, and deploy models and algorithms for systematic trading. You will analyze large datasets to identify patterns and signals for trading strategies, collaborate to take research into production, and monitor and refine models using live market performance.
Requirements
- PhD in Mathematics, Physics, Computer Science, or a related quantitative field.
- Strong knowledge of statistics and linear algebra.
- Proficiency implementing models and algorithms in Python or C++.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
- Ability to work independently on open-ended, ambiguous problems.
Responsibilities
- Design, build, optimize, and deploy models and algorithms for systematic trading.
- Analyze large datasets to identify patterns and signals for trading strategies.
- Collaborate with traders and technologists to move models from research into live production.
- Monitor and refine existing models based on live market performance.
Benefits
- Annual discretionary profit share.
- Daily catered lunch, coffee, and stocked kitchen and snack bar.
- In-house bar and lounge with arcade, table tennis, billiards, and game consoles.
- Company boat.
- In-house gym and sessions with a nutritionist or personal trainer.
- Bi-weekly massages.
- Annual company trip and other events.
- Global rotations across offices worldwide.