Quantitative Researcher, PhD

As a Quantitative Researcher, your focus is on identifying trading opportunities and using strong quantitative skills and coding proficiency to accelerate innovation and help others leverage your work.

Over a six‑month period you'll work on a variety of projects with different collaborators, gaining insight into market dynamics, trading strategies, and our proprietary research platform.

While interest in trading is key, a background in finance is not required. Our team consists mainly of academics from top universities and diverse disciplines.

• Competitive salary
• Quarterly bonus based on individual performance and contribution toward the firm’s success

• Persistent drive to improve
• Creative problem‑solving and probabilistic thinking
• Team mindset, committed to sharing ideas
• Mental flexibility and self‑awareness, adapting based on new data and feedback
• Orientation for making money – focus on high‑value projects

• Strong intuition and deep thinking with data sets – design new alphas, understand complex systems, know where to start or ask others
• Ability to quickly analyze data to find empirical relationships, distinguish signal from noise
• Familiarity with classical statistical methods and ability to apply them rigorously; willing to learn and apply new methods
• Experience with modern AI techniques and applied machine learning (preferred)
• Constantly questions finance/trading data and seeks answers despite often finding no correlation or signal
• Experience setting up research frameworks and executing projects
• Understanding of financial products, market dynamics, and microstructure
• Knowledge of low‑level computer languages such as C++, Python, Java, with awareness of their strengths and nuances to solve complex problems