Associate/VP – AlphaWise Quant Researcher
A quantamental researcher in the equity research division who combines quantitative models with analyst insight to forecast company metrics and test alternative data. It sits inside a team that publishes research notes for clients.
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 company key performance indicators using quantitative models and sector knowledge
- Backtest signals built from alternative datasets
- Try large language model tools to pull new alpha ideas from text
- Build tools and frameworks to clean and host raw data from many sources
- Write research notes and present quant evidence to sales and clients
What they ask for
Required
- Advanced degree in statistics, data science, computer science or financial engineering
- Strong Python and Q/kdb
- 1-5 years of development in UNIX/Linux
- Statistical learning
- Large dataset handling
- Client-facing communication
- Independent problem solving
Preferred
- PhD
- Deep learning and LLM experience
- Education
- Advanced degree in a quantitative field such as statistics, data science, computer science or financial engineering; PhD preferred.
- Experience
- 1-5 years of development in a UNIX/Linux environment
- Languages and tools
- Markets
- equities
How to prepare
- Build a revenue nowcast for a listed company from a public alternative dataset and backtest it
- Practise cleaning and joining messy time series in Python
- Learn how to test whether a signal survives out-of-sample and across sectors
- Experiment with extracting structured features from earnings call text using an LLM
What to study
- Financial Machine Learning
- Text as Data and NLP for Finance
- Quantitative Research, Data and Backtesting
- Empirical Asset Pricing and Factor Investing
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