Quantitative Research Analyst
A researcher on a systematic trading team at a multi-manager hedge fund, building models that generate alpha across asset classes. The work covers signal discovery, strategy monitoring and passing findings to portfolio managers.
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.
- Search market data for predictive signals using statistical and machine learning methods
- Backtest and refine new strategy ideas before they go live
- Monitor deployed strategies and adjust them as performance data comes in
- Help design execution and portfolio optimisation logic that fits the alpha goals
- Explain findings to portfolio managers and non-technical stakeholders
What they ask for
Required
- Degree in a quantitative field
- Track record in alpha generation
- Python, R or MATLAB
- Statistical analysis and predictive modelling
- Pattern recognition in market data
- Clear written and verbal communication
Preferred
- Machine learning and big data experience in finance
- AI techniques
- Education
- Degree in mathematics, statistics, physics, computer science or financial engineering
- Experience
- Solid quantitative analysis experience with a proven record in alpha generation; years not stated
- Languages and tools
- Markets
- multi-asset
How to prepare
- Replicate a published equity or futures signal end to end and write up where it breaks out of sample
- Practise backtesting with transaction costs, and learn the common sources of overfitting
- Study portfolio optimisation and basic execution cost models
- Prepare a short, plain-English write-up of one research result as practice communicating to non-specialists
What to study
- Quantitative Research, Data and Backtesting
- Probability, Statistics and Financial Data
- Financial Machine Learning
- Empirical Asset Pricing and Factor Investing
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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.