Quantitative Strategist
Skills
About the Role
You will work on interdisciplinary teams alongside traders, quants and seasoned software engineers in a collegiate and collaborative environment. You will apply your observation skills and modern statistical methods to identify and build predictive models. You will research and implement new trading strategies and analyze existing ones to identify potential improvements. You will develop risk models and frameworks to manage portfolio risks, and you will create tools to automate research tasks and improve the visualization of complex data sets.
Requirements
- PhD in Science, Math, Engineering or other quantitative field
- History of diverse, challenging, and interesting coursework paired with strong grades
- Exceptional quantitative, mathematical, and problem-solving skills
- Great communication skills and the ability to collaborate with peers
- Ability to solve technical and or quantitative problems under pressure
- Ability to express ideas mathematically and algorithmically
- Programming skills (strong in Python and/or C/C++ but comfortable in both)
- Intellectually curious and self-motivated
- Ability to communicate within and across teams, at a high and low level, on both technical and non-technical subjects
- Ability to seek guidance and learn new skills from peers
- Extraordinary mental flexibility and a high tolerance for ambiguity
- Strong drive for success within a collaborative team
Responsibilities
- Apply observation skills and modern statistical methods to identify and build predictive models
- 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 and improve visualization of complex data sets
