Quantitative researcher to help build out a new systematic macro (futures, FX, and vol) business. The main focus will be working on mid-frequency alpha strategies.
Develop systematic trading models across FX, commodities, fixed income, and equity markets
Alpha idea generation, backtesting, and implementation
Assist in building, maintenance, and continual improvement of production and trading environments
Evaluate new datasets for alpha potential
Improve existing strategies and portfolio optimization
Execution monitoring
Be a core contributor to growing the investment process and research infrastructure of the team
Requirements:-
PhD in mathematics, statistics, physics or other quantitative discipline.
Experience in quantitative trading, ideally in FX or futures
Experience with alpha research, portfolio construction and optimization
Experience building statistical/technical, fundamental, and data driven signals
Experience synthesizing predictive signals for both cross-sectional and time-series models
Strong experience with data exploration, dimension reduction, and feature engineering
Proficiency in Python using the machine learning stack—numpy, pandas, scikit-learn, etc.
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