Quant jobs / JPMorgan

Credit Quantitative Trading – Vice President

A quantitative trading role within JPMorgan's credit market-making franchise, covering corporate bonds, CDS indices and ETFs. You research and ship pricing, hedging and distribution improvements.

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 and back-test credit trading strategies
Implement strategies in production trading code
Improve client pricing distribution
Handle pricing, hedging and inventory problems with traders
Monitor performance and fix daily trading issues

What they ask for

Required

Quantitative degree
3 years of industry experience or equivalent study
C++, Java or similar object-oriented programming
Probability and statistics
Advanced data analysis
Interest in markets

Preferred

Credit market-making experience
Automated trading systems
Large datasets and low latency
Advanced degree

Education: Degree in maths, physics, engineering, CS or another quantitative subject; advanced degree preferred
Experience: 3 years of industry experience or equivalent further study
Languages and tools: C++
Java
Markets: credit, fixed-income

How to prepare

Learn how corporate bond market making works, including quoting and inventory
Study CDS index and bond basis relationships
Build a back-test of a credit signal on public bond data
Practise writing production-style C++ or Java

What to study

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