Quant jobs / JPMorgan

Credit Portfolio Lending Group – Quantitative Research (Associate/VP)

A quant research role in the credit portfolio lending group, using AI and LLM agents to automate trading workflows and risk reporting. It also covers signal generation and portfolio optimisation for hedging.

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 LLM and agent-based tools for the credit portfolio desk
Apply ML to trading signals and portfolio optimisation
Automate daily risk and position reports
Build trade support tools for hedging, credit curve reconciliation and loan sales
Work with model control teams on approval

What they ask for

Required

Advanced degree in maths, stats, physics, financial engineering or CS
Experience in quant research, markets or analytics supporting trading desks
Building AI, ML or LLM applications for finance
Portfolio optimisation
Python software design and data science
Communication

Preferred

Credit portfolio management or trading experience
Automating desk workflows
Model control and compliance

Education: Advanced degree in maths, statistics, physics, financial engineering or CS
Experience: Prior quant research, markets or analytics experience at a fixed income, credit or lending desk
Languages and tools: Python
Markets: credit

How to prepare

Build an LLM agent that summarises a risk report and flags anomalies
Study credit portfolio hedging with CDS indices
Practise mean-variance and constrained portfolio optimisation
Learn model risk expectations for ML tools in finance

What to study

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