Quant jobs / JPMorgan

Prime Finance Quantitative Researcher

Quant who builds ML, statistical and optimisation models for the prime finance and securities lending business. Sits in J.P. Morgan's quantitative trading and research group working with the desk.

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.

Forecast borrow rates and client demand with ML models
Optimise pricing and inventory allocation for the financing books
Research alpha signals and automated hedging approaches
Build tooling to deploy models and deliver analytics to traders

What they ask for

Required

Master's or PhD in statistics, AI/ML, computer science or operations research
Significant quantitative modelling experience
Machine learning and operations research
Python
Optimisation and statistics
Presenting to senior stakeholders

Preferred

Systematic trading or alpha research
Prime finance or securities lending
Gurobi, CPLEX or linear programming
scikit-learn, TensorFlow or PyTorch
Publications

Education: Master's or PhD in statistics, AI/ML, computer science, operations research or related field
Experience: Significant quantitative modelling or analytics experience; prime finance experience not required
Languages and tools: Python
scikit-learn
TensorFlow
PyTorch
Markets: equities

How to prepare

Forecast a time series (such as borrow fees) with gradient boosting and walk-forward validation
Formulate a pricing or allocation problem as a linear programme and solve it
Learn how stock lending, repo and synthetic financing work
Write a short methodology note for a model, since documentation is part of the job

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