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eFX Quant Analyst – VP

A senior quant role on the electronic FX market-making desk, owning the price-making and risk algorithms. The hire also leads a small team of quants.

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.

Own and improve a portfolio of electronic pricing and risk algorithms
Mine public and proprietary data for new sources of profit
Take research from prototype through backtesting to live deployment
Review live model behaviour and fix weaknesses
Mentor quants and set technical direction

What they ask for

Required

Track record building production systematic eFX market-making or high-frequency strategies
Statistical and machine learning methods on asynchronous high-frequency data
Experience leading or mentoring a quant team
Python (or Matlab or R)
Postgraduate degree in a quantitative field
Scepticism about in-sample results

Preferred

Java or C++
AI coding assistant experience
PhD

Education: Postgraduate degree in engineering, statistics, maths, physics or similar; PhD preferred
Experience: Proven record running production quantitative trading systems, plus team leadership
Languages and tools: Python
Matlab
R
Java
C++
Markets: fx

How to prepare

Build a toy FX market maker simulation with inventory skew and adverse selection
Practise cleaning and analysing irregular tick data, including timestamp alignment
Study overfitting controls and why simple models often generalise better
Learn how latency affects quoting and hedging decisions

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SelfMadeQuant wrote this summary from the employer’s public posting, last checked 6 November 2026. SelfMadeQuant isn’t affiliated with State Street and doesn’t handle applications.