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Systematic Credit Quantitative Researcher – Associate

A research role in the Systematic Credit market-making team that trades corporate bonds, credit derivatives and bond ETFs. You build alpha signals plus the data pipelines and backtesting platform behind them.

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.

Research predictive signals for corporate bonds and credit ETFs
Clean and normalise noisy credit data such as TRACE and dealer runs into a trusted research dataset
Contribute to a self-service backtesting platform with point-in-time simulation
Work with developers on backtest engines and analytics libraries

What they ask for

Required

Probability, statistics and linear algebra
Time-series analysis
Bond pricing, credit spreads and duration/convexity
Python with Pandas, NumPy, SciPy and scikit-learn
SQL and time-series databases
Machine learning on financial data

Preferred

C++ or Java
Systematic corporate bond or credit derivatives research
Building shared backtesting frameworks
KDB+/q and tick-level data

Education: Master's or PhD in a highly quantitative STEM discipline
Experience: 3+ years in quantitative research, financial engineering or data science
Languages and tools: Python
C++
Java
SQL
KDB+/q
ClickHouse
Markets: credit, fixed-income

How to prepare

Analyse public TRACE bond trade data to build features such as liquidity and spread changes
Build a point-in-time backtest that avoids look-ahead and survivorship bias
Study credit spread dynamics and bond pricing, including duration and convexity
Practise KDB+/q or ClickHouse queries over large time series

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