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Quantitative Trading & Research – Energy (Power and Gas), Executive Director

A senior build role in JPMorgan's energy quant team, acting as the lead quantitative partner to the North American Power and Gas desks as the physical business grows.

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.

Own the modelling agenda for physical power and gas pricing and risk
Value generation, storage and transport optionality
Deliver calibration, pricing and backtesting tools to the front office
Lead projects and set priorities across the team
Contribute to systematic energy trading research

What they ask for

Required

Master's or PhD in a quantitative field, or equivalent
5+ years as a quant on physical power and/or gas
Valuation of physical assets and optionality
ISO/RTO power and gas market knowledge
Stochastic calculus, optimisation, Monte Carlo
Python
Track record of models in desk use

Preferred

Commodity systematic strategy backtesting
Renewables modelling

Education: Master's or PhD in a quantitative field, or equivalent experience
Experience: 5+ years as a quant on physical power and/or gas
Languages and tools: Python
Markets: commodities

How to prepare

Build and calibrate a multi-factor power price model with spikes and mean reversion
Price a swing or storage contract numerically
Study how basis and shape drive physical value
Practise explaining model risks to a trader in plain terms

What to study

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