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Quantitative Trading Associate

A trading operations and oversight role on Schonfeld's Hong Kong quant trading business, combining live monitoring with automation. It can lead to supervisory responsibility in a regulated setting.

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.

Monitor quant strategy performance, execution quality and risk thresholds during market hours
Maintain dashboards, alerts and runbooks
Lead incident response and trade or position reconciliations
Support rebalancing and constraint management using automated workflows

What they ask for

Required

Python
Linux
Analytical, data-driven thinking
Financial industry experience
Attention to detail
Communication

Education: Bachelor's, Master's or PhD in computer science, data science, engineering, finance, economics or similar.
Experience: 3+ years in the financial industry
Languages and tools: Python

How to prepare

Build a monitoring dashboard with alerts for fills and positions
Practise trade and position reconciliation logic in Python
Learn broker and execution platform basics and market structure
Study risk limits and incident runbook design

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 Schonfeld and doesn’t handle applications.