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Quantitative Trading & Research – Equity Derivatives Alpha Quant

A systematic alpha research role in JPMorgan's Equity Derivatives QTR team, working on equity options and volatility strategies. It covers research through production alongside the trading 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.

Build daily and intraday signal research and deployment infrastructure for derivatives
Research option surface, term structure, skew and dispersion effects
Create backtesting and attribution tools suited to derivatives P&L
Build models mixing fundamental, quantitative and microstructure features
Work with trading on hedging design and risk

What they ask for

Required

Strong quantitative background
Signal research on market data
Alpha capture and risk warehousing knowledge
Python, KDB, C++ or Java
Large dataset analytics
Quickly learning business concepts
Communication and influence

Preferred

MS or PhD in a quantitative field
Statistics and ML in finance
Robust testing practice
Electronic trading experience
3-5 years in finance
Equity derivatives knowledge

Education: Graduate degree (MS or PhD) preferred in a quantitative field
Experience: Associate level; 3-5 years in finance preferred
Languages and tools: Python
KDB+/q
C++
Java
Markets: equities, options

How to prepare

Build an options backtest with realistic costs and hedging assumptions
Study implied volatility surface dynamics, skew and term structure
Learn alpha signal construction and attribution on derivatives P&L
Practise feature engineering and out-of-sample evaluation on financial data

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