Quantitative Strategist (PhD)
Virtu Financial is a global financial services firm and market maker providing liquidity, execution services, analytics, and trading technology across multiple asset classes.
About Virtu Financial, Inc.
Virtu Financial, Inc. leverages market-structure expertise and technology to provide liquidity and transparent trading solutions across equities, ETFs, foreign exchange, futures, fixed income, cryptocurrency, and commodities. Its offerings include market making, execution services, liquidity sourcing, multi-asset analytics, data products, compliance tools, and broker-neutral workflow technology.
Skills
Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will identify and build predictive models using modern statistical methods, research and implement trading strategies, and analyze existing strategies for improvement. You will develop risk models and portfolio risk frameworks while creating tools that automate research and improve the visualization of complex data sets.
Requirements
- PhD in science, mathematics, engineering, or another quantitative or STEM program
- Strong GPA
- Quantitative skills
- Mathematical skills
- Problem-solving skills
- Communication skills
- Ability to solve technical and quantitative problems under pressure
- Ability to express ideas mathematically and algorithmically
- Programming skills in Python or C/C++
- No previous Quant Finance or specific asset class experience required
Responsibilities
- Identify and build predictive models using modern statistical methods
- Research and implement new trading strategies
- Analyze existing strategies to identify potential improvements
- Develop risk models and frameworks to manage portfolio risks
- Create tools to automate research tasks
- Improve visualization of complex data sets
Hiring Process
After passing an application screening, candidates will be sent an online programming test via email from HackerRank as a first step of the process.