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Quantitative Researcher – PhD & Postdoc Opportunities

An entry route into signal research for final-year PhD students and postdocs, placed in one of the firm's systematic teams. You learn to apply academic training to real trading data with mentoring.

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.

Look for predictive patterns in large, varied market datasets
Convert theoretical models into signals that can run in production
Swap ideas with other researchers to sharpen methods
Take a research idea through the whole cycle to implementation
Complete the firm's data challenge-style tasks as part of learning the job

What they ask for

Required

PhD in progress (final year) or postdoc in a quantitative field
Python, or R, MATLAB, C++ or C#
Pragmatic approach to applying theory to real data
Fluent English
Communication skills
Autonomy in a collaborative team

Preferred

Experience with large datasets across several time frames
Additional spoken languages

Education: Final-year PhD or postdoc in statistics, maths, physics, biology, computer science or engineering
Experience: Final-year PhD students or postdoctoral researchers
Languages and tools: Python
R
MATLAB
C++
C#
Markets: multi-asset

How to prepare

Try the public data challenge the firm links to and write up your approach
Build a small prediction pipeline on noisy time-series data with a proper train/test split
Be ready to explain your thesis methods in terms of data, noise and validation
Brush up Python data skills and basic statistics for inference

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 Qube Research & Technologies and doesn’t handle applications.