Quant jobs / Voleon
Quantitative Trading Strategist
A role improving how systematic strategies are implemented, covering execution, securities lending and portfolio financing. It bridges trading and research at an ML-driven hedge fund.
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.
- Measure execution quality and find improvements across asset classes
- Research market topics and present findings across teams
- Build production packages and data pipelines
- Advise research on microstructure
- Handle relationships with brokers and trading partners
What they ask for
Required
- 3+ years in a quantitative trading environment
- Python, R and SQL at production level
- Applied statistics
- Market microstructure understanding
- Clear communication
- Scientific or quantitative bachelor's degree
- Education
- Bachelor's in a scientific or quantitative discipline
- Experience
- 3+ years in quantitative trading with research emphasis
- Languages and tools
- Markets
- multi-asset
How to prepare
- Learn transaction cost analysis and slippage measurement
- Study microstructure across asset classes
- Build an execution-quality report from public trade data
- Understand securities lending and financing basics
What to study
- Market Microstructure and Execution
- Financial Instruments, Markets and Conventions
- Probability, Statistics and Financial Data
- Python for Quantitative Finance
Apply
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SelfMadeQuant wrote this summary from the employer’s public posting, last checked 6 November 2026. SelfMadeQuant isn’t affiliated with Voleon and doesn’t handle applications.
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