Quant jobs / Qube Research & Technologies

Quantitative Researcher/Trader

A lateral-hire role in Asia combining signal research with strategy ownership at a global systematic manager. Students and fresh graduates are directed to other programmes.

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 predictive signals from large, varied datasets
Deploy signals and their data into the global execution platform
Monitor live signal and model performance and act when it decays
Share methods and datasets with researchers elsewhere in the firm
Own a strategy from first idea through to implementation

What they ask for

Required

Direct experience as a quant researcher, trader or in data science/ML
Advanced degree in a quantitative field
Coding in Python, R, Matlab, C++ or C#
Record of delivering systematic strategies
Communicating across technologists, data scientists and traders
Detail focus under pressure

Preferred

Statistics, machine learning, NLP or AI techniques
Exploring large datasets across several time frames

Education: Advanced degree in data science, statistics, maths, physics or engineering
Experience: Direct experience as a quant researcher or trader, or in data science/ML; no fresh graduates
Languages and tools: Python
R
Matlab
C++
C#
Markets: multi-asset

How to prepare

Assemble a track record you can discuss: strategies, risk, decay and what you changed
Practise live-monitoring ideas: how to tell signal decay from noise
Review statistics and ML basics for financial data
Be fluent in a research language with large-data handling

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.