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Quantitative Researcher (Full-Time – Master's/Bachelor's)

An early-career researcher role at a proprietary trading firm, hiring mostly from academia rather than finance. New hires work on varied projects to learn trading strategies and the in-house research platform.

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.

Analyse market data to look for empirical relationships and new alphas
Rotate across projects with different collaborators in the first period
Build and reuse research frameworks and code
Try applied machine learning methods on trading problems

What they ask for

Required

Quantitative degree (maths, physics, CS, statistics, engineering)
Classical statistical methods
Probabilistic thinking
Programming in a low-level language such as C++
Interest in trading and market microstructure

Preferred

Modern AI and machine learning techniques
Applied machine learning experience

Education: Bachelor's or Master's in a quantitative field such as maths, physics, computer science, statistics or engineering.
Experience: Early-career; finance background explicitly not required
Languages and tools: C++
Python

How to prepare

Complete an end-to-end data-analysis project on market data and write up what did not work
Refresh statistics: regression, bias-variance, cross-validation and false discoveries
Learn market microstructure basics and how order books behave
Get comfortable with C++ for numerical code alongside Python
Try a simple machine learning model on financial features and test it out-of-sample

What to study

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