Graduate Quantitative Researcher

£120,000 GBP

+ discretionary bonus

Onsite WORKING

Location: City of London, Central London, Greater London - United Kingdom Type: Permanent

The client is a successful and well established Systematic Hedge Fund with offices in London, Paris, New York and Singapore. They have been very successful in the HFT/Intraday Equities space, but recently have expanded into UHFT with teams working on satellite/FPGA technologies, as well as longer-term investment style strategies.

They are actively hiring Junior Quantitative Researchers for multiple Equities, FX and Futures teams.

Responsibilities

• Research and analyse large datasets, extracting patterns and trends.
• Gather insights to build and deploy systematic trading strategies.
• Monitor performance and behaviour of existing strategies, looking to enhance where possible.
• Collaborate with other Quantitative Researchers on wider team projects.
• Contribute to Quantitative frameworks and infrastructure used by the team and firm.

Requirements

• Strong proficiency in Python
• Experience with C++ is a plus, but not a hard requirement.
• Preferable experience in alpha research/signal generation, or worked on systematic trading strategy development.
• Deep understanding of data science practices e.g. feature engineering and signal combining.
• Bachelor's degree or higher in a Quantitative discipline e.g. Maths, Computer Science, Engineering, Physics, or Statistics.

Compensation

Competitive base salary. Offers can include a sign-on/guaranteed bonus.

More information to be disclosed on first call.

VISA Sponsorship is available.