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Junior Quantitative Developer

A junior developer role in CFM's Quant Engineering group, working on the portfolio construction systems used in production and large-scale backtesting. It supports researchers and portfolio managers with simulation, monitoring and tooling.

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.

Improve portfolio construction and rebalancing features in production and backtests
Fold trading cost models into mark-to-market so PnL is net of costs
Build libraries and tools for researchers working on portfolio optimisation
Investigate unexpected behaviour in signals, positions and constraints
Support portfolio managers with analytics and diagnostics

What they ask for

Required

Master's, engineering degree or PhD in a relevant field
Probability, statistics, linear algebra and optimisation
Strong Python with pandas, NumPy and scikit-learn
Version control, testing and CI/CD
Interest in systematic investing
English

Preferred

First experience in quantitative finance or data science
French

Education: Master's, engineering degree or PhD in computer science, engineering or applied maths
Experience: Early career; some first exposure to quant finance or data science preferred
Languages and tools: Python
Markets: equities, futures, options

How to prepare

Implement mean-variance portfolio optimisation with constraints and transaction costs in Python
Build a backtest framework with tests and reproducible runs
Study how trading costs and market impact are modelled
Practise debugging data and position discrepancies in a simulated portfolio
Use version control, CI and code review on a personal project

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