Quant jobs / Point72 Asset Management

Quantitative Developer

Point72’s Internal Alpha Capture team develops quantitative equity signals. The developer builds trading applications, research tools and data pipelines alongside researchers.

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.

Develop equity-trading applications.
Improve signal-research tools.
Optimise data stores and pipelines.

What they ask for

Required

Production Python
Data engineering
Software ownership
Research collaboration

Preferred

Statistics and ML
Profiling tools

Education: Relevant undergraduate qualification or higher appears in the desirable profile.
Experience: Five-plus years in hedge funds, banks or quant firms listed as desirable.
Languages and tools: Python
SQL
Docker
Unix
Markets: equities

How to prepare

Build a signal-data pipeline.
Profile a research application.
Test real-time analytics.

What to study

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SelfMadeQuant wrote this summary from the employer’s public posting, last checked 6 November 2026. SelfMadeQuant isn’t affiliated with Point72 Asset Management and doesn’t handle applications.