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Boston, United States

$150,000 - $300,000

My client, is one of the leading quant funds in Boston, MA and is on the lookout for a quantitative researcher to join the algorithmic trading team. The role will involve designing and developing algorithmic trading strategies for global equities, conducting analysis of broker algorithms, working on research related to best execution, transaction cost analysis, order queue prediction, dark pool analysis. The firm manages circa 50bn and their trading philosophy combines top down macro quant  with bottom up stock selection. This role will focus on building automated strategies for best execution.


The ideal candidate will have;

  • Between 3-7 years of industry experience Masters or / PhD background from a university with a reputation for academic rigor.  
  • A strong understanding of the equity market micro-structure.
  • Strong quantitative research skills, expertise in statistics, probability, data analysis.
  • Expertise in time series and econometric, forecasting.
  • Ability to use a mathematical language such as Matlab, R
  • Experience working with Python, Perl or similar for scripting and data analysis.
  • Ability to design and implement algorithms in a programming language such as Python, C++ or similar.  
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