Quant jobs / JPMorgan

Quantitative Trading & Research, Cross-Asset – Associate

An associate role in JPMorgan's Singapore QTR team building models to value and hedge products from vanilla to complex derivatives. It also involves algorithmic trading and ML productionisation.

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 and maintain valuation and hedging models for vanilla and complex derivatives
Improve algorithmic trading strategies
Create methods and infrastructure for production deployment
Develop market and credit risk models with risk functions
Productionise ML models with monitoring and rollback

What they ask for

Required

PhD in a quantitative field
1 year of related experience (PhD research counts)
Calculus, linear algebra, probability, statistics
C++ or Java plus strong Python
Data structures and algorithms
Communication with stakeholders

Preferred

Knowledge of fixed income, credit, commodities and equities
Low-level systems background
Options pricing, stochastic calculus or HPC
Market and credit risk modelling

Education: PhD in financial engineering, CS, maths, sciences, statistics or econometrics
Experience: 1 year including PhD research
Languages and tools: Python
C++
Java
Markets: fixed-income, credit, commodities, equities

How to prepare

Implement a derivatives pricer and hedging simulator in C++ and Python
Learn how production ML systems are monitored and rolled back
Review stochastic calculus for derivative pricing
Study algorithmic trading basics and market and credit risk metrics

What to study

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