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Lead Alpha Researcher – Systematic Equities

A senior hands-on research and management role leading part of the European alpha research team in systematic equities. It sits within a global alpha effort and drives signals from idea to production.

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.

Lead research on alpha signals and predictive models for equities
Manage and develop European alpha researchers
Set the research agenda and priorities with global peers
Enforce validation and reproducibility standards
Build shared research tools and datasets

What they ask for

Required

Master's or PhD in a quantitative field
5+ years building intraday systematic strategies
Track record of profitable orthogonal signals
Team leadership
Machine learning with robust validation
Python

Education: Master's or PhD in ML, statistics, maths, CS, engineering, physics or another quantitative discipline.
Experience: 5+ years developing intraday systematic strategies and signals
Languages and tools: Python
Markets: equities

How to prepare

Build an intraday equity signal study with a strict out-of-sample protocol
Learn techniques for multiple-testing control and signal orthogonality
Study ML pipelines for return prediction and their failure modes
Practise explaining research decisions to non-specialists

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