Quant jobs / Verition Fund Management

Commodities Quantitative Analyst

A research-heavy role on a commodities pod at a multi-manager hedge fund, working beside a portfolio manager to turn alternative data into trading signals. It sits on the investment side rather than in engineering.

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.

Source and clean shipping, vessel-tracking and inventory datasets for oil and energy markets
Test whether a new alternative dataset predicts commodity returns, with proper backtests
Build time-series forecasting models for energy prices and validate them statistically
Prototype signal ideas quickly with the portfolio manager and refine them as markets shift

What they ask for

Required

Python with pandas, NumPy, SciPy and scikit-learn
Financial time series analysis
Statistical modelling and hypothesis testing
Feature engineering
Backtesting and signal evaluation
SQL and cloud data platforms
Interest in commodities and alternative data

Preferred

Applying large language models to research workflows
Working with unstructured data such as satellite imagery

Education: No degree level stated; strong statistics and financial modelling foundation expected
Experience: Prior hands-on experience in time series and signal research; exact years not stated
Languages and tools: Python
SQL
Markets: commodities, futures

How to prepare

Build a small forecasting model for crude oil or freight rates using a public dataset and a proper walk-forward backtest
Practise testing whether a weak signal survives multiple-testing and overfitting checks
Learn how AIS vessel-tracking and storage data are structured and how to clean them
Get fluent with pandas pipelines over large messy datasets, plus SQL

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