Quant jobs / Susquehanna International Group (SIG)

Quantitative Systematic Trader – Experienced Hire

A hybrid research and trading role where you look for patterns in market data, turn them into signals and backtest them. It links trading, quant research and technology.

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.

Explore market data for patterns that could become trading signals
Backtest signals and analyse results carefully
Refine live strategies as feedback comes from researchers and traders
Discuss new ideas with strategists, researchers and traders

What they ask for

Required

Advanced degree in a quantitative field
Analytical problem solving
Logical reasoning
Python for large datasets
Communication
Ability to work in a fast-paced setting

Preferred

C++ or other low-level languages
Interest in strategic games

Education: Advanced degree in maths, physics, statistics, engineering, CS, operations research or similar
Experience: Experienced hire; finance experience not required
Languages and tools: Python
C++

How to prepare

Rebuild a simple signal research pipeline in Python: data cleaning, feature construction, walk-forward backtest, honest out-of-sample report
Revise probability, statistics and optimisation until you can derive results, not just recite them
Practise overfitting checks such as multiple-testing corrections and purged cross-validation
Prepare for market-making and probability puzzles by working through option and betting-odds problems

What to study

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