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Quantitative Analyst, Structured Products Investment Team

A quant and developer role supporting a discretionary macro team that invests in structured products, especially CLOs. You would build the data and analytics tooling that the portfolio managers use.

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.

Design and maintain the data infrastructure for structured products investing
Merge alternative and traditional datasets into the team's analytics
Use AI tools to speed up and improve existing processes
Work with high-yield-equivalent risk measures in Bloomberg and similar platforms
Support special projects in the CLO market

What they ask for

Required

3+ years in sell-side trading or quant research, or as a quant at a buy-side credit or mortgage fund
Degree in computer science, economics, engineering, maths, physics or statistics
Advanced Python, C++ or SQL
Advanced Excel and cashflow modelling
Experience with structured credit cashflow engines such as INTEX and their APIs

Education: Undergraduate degree or higher in computer science, economics, engineering, maths, physics or statistics
Experience: 3+ years at a sell-side firm in trading or quant research, or as a quant at a buy-side credit or mortgage fund
Languages and tools: Python
C++
SQL
Excel
Markets: credit, fixed-income

How to prepare

Learn how CLO and ABS cashflow waterfalls work and model a simple one in Python
Study credit risk measures such as spread duration and default and recovery assumptions
Practise pulling market data through the Bloomberg API
Read about securitisation structures and how tranches are priced

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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 and doesn’t handle applications.