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Global Stock Selection Researcher – Technical Signals

A senior researcher reporting to the co-head of AQR's Global Stock Selection group, which builds all the firm's equity alpha models. The focus is signals from price and market data at medium and long horizons.

What you’d work on

Our reading of the posting: what a new hire in this role would most likely spend their first months on.

Build alpha signals from scratch, from data cleaning to feature engineering
Train and test machine-learning models for cross-sectional or time-series prediction
Evaluate signal effectiveness systematically
Research trading cost, risk and portfolio construction questions
Extend the in-house research system

What they ask for

Required

Python
Large financial dataset handling
Mathematics, probability and data science
Alpha research experience
Written and verbal communication
Independent research ownership

Preferred

Advanced degree
Technical or market-data alpha at medium and long horizons
Quant research at a top asset manager or hedge fund

Education: BS from a top institution in a quantitative discipline; advanced degrees preferred.
Experience: 7+ years in a data-driven research environment with an alpha focus
Languages and tools: Python
Markets: equities

How to prepare

Study momentum, trend and reversal signals across horizons and their documented decay
Build a technical-signal research pipeline with cleaning, feature engineering and evaluation
Learn proper out-of-sample testing for price-based predictors
Read the academic literature on technical analysis and time-series momentum

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