Quant jobs / Five Rings

Quantitative Researcher – Experienced/Lateral

A lateral researcher at a proprietary trading firm who builds and improves market models and trading strategies in futures and equities. You work with traders and developers from idea through to live testing.

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.

Find intraday signals in large financial datasets
Build or improve market models
Write analyses and simulations
Implement models in trading systems and test them live
Collaborate with traders and software developers

What they ask for

Required

Bachelor's in computer science, economics, maths, physics or statistics
2+ years developing quant strategies in futures or equities
Large financial data analysis for intraday signals
Strong mathematical ability
R, Python or similar statistical tools

Education: Bachelor's in computer science, economics, mathematics, physics, statistics or similar
Experience: 2+ years developing quant trading strategies in futures or equities
Languages and tools: R
Python
Markets: futures, equities

How to prepare

Build and test an intraday signal on futures or equity tick data
Study mid- to high-frequency signal decay and transaction costs
Practise simulation design and honest out-of-sample testing
Review market microstructure basics

What to study

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SelfMadeQuant wrote this summary from the employer’s public posting, last checked 6 November 2026. SelfMadeQuant isn’t affiliated with Five Rings and doesn’t handle applications.