Quant Investment Company Recruiting Senior Quant

Role:-

This role is ideal for an experienced researcher to join a well-positioned team at an early stage to deliver measurable and long-lasting PnL impact while collaborating with individuals with proven experience building some of the most profitable high-frequency strategies in the world.

You will:-

• Contribute to and drive research projects with heavy PnL impact, including alpha signal generation, statistical modelling and machine learning, strategy simulation and calibration, post-trade analysis, and so forth.
• Develop or improve the team’s research pipeline and simulation environments
• Write production trading strategies (C++)

Requirements:-

• Significant experience in alpha generation or strategy research in quantitative trading, preferably in high-frequency trading
• Significant experience in building research pipelines and tools for quantitative trading that process large volume of data in cloud or distributed computing environments
• Significant experience in trading equities and/or futures in US and other major global markets
• Strong publication record in machine learning, statistical modeling, optimization, signal processing, computer vision, natural language processing or a similar data-driven research field, e.g., NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, AAAI, KDD, JMLR, PAMI, etc. for machine learning.
• Bachelors or advanced degree in a STEM major
• Strong intuition, hands-on mentality, and keen interest in playing with data
• Knowledge of statistics, statistical modeling or machine learning techniques and knowing whether, when and how to apply them in data-driven research
• Programming skills in C++
• Programming skills in Python or other scripting languages
• Ideally 4+ years of working experience in quantitative trading, preferably in high-frequency trading
• Demonstrated ability to write well-documented code
• Passion for building research pipelines and tools

Apply:-

Please send a PDF resume to quants@ekafinance.com