Quant jobs / JPMorgan

Quantitative Trading and Research – Credit – Vice President

A quant on the credit electronic trading team, working on corporate bonds, bond portfolios and CDS indices for systematic market making. It sits in JPMorgan's Quantitative Trading and Research group alongside market makers and electronic risk managers.

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 analytics and models for low-touch bond market making
Mine large trading and market datasets for signals useful to traders
Test machine learning approaches next to traditional statistics and take them into production
Improve existing AI and ML models in the pricing and risk stack
Work with electronic risk managers on how models behave live

What they ask for

Required

Postgraduate degree in a STEM subject
Quantitative research experience in electronic trading
Corporate credit knowledge
Systematic market making
Analytical rigour
Communication with non-technical people

Preferred

Deep learning
Time series modelling
Python and Java for libraries and micro-services

Education: Postgraduate degree in a STEM discipline such as maths, physics, engineering or CS.
Experience: Extensive quantitative research experience in an e-trading setting.
Languages and tools: Python
Java
Markets: credit, fixed-income

How to prepare

Learn how corporate bond pricing and CDS index basis work
Study market making: inventory risk, quoting and skew
Build a short-horizon price prediction model on bond or ETF data and test it out of sample
Practise time-series deep learning on noisy financial data

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