Quantitative Researcher - Execution Services

Quantitative Researcher - Execution Services

The Central Liquidity Strategies (CLS) business manages a number of portfolios and products designed to optimize the firm’s trading and execution approach by providing internal liquidity solutions for portfolio managers on both a risk and agency basis.

We are looking for a highly driven, results oriented Quantitative Researcher to join a new and dynamic group tasked with Equity Alpha Research. The outputs of this research will be used across Execution Service at very large scale.

Principal Responsibilities

The successful candidate will be expected to:

• Apply statistical and ML techniques across a variety of large datasets in order to build strong predictive models.
• Be creative with ideas and be able to realize them in practice, including data sourcing, research, back-testing and implementing pipelines to deploy the models to production.
• Collaborate transparently with team members to decide overall direction, design and architecture of the research platform and goals, and with key stake holders across Execution Services.

Qualifications/Skills Required

• 5+ years of KDB and/or Python in a research or ML context.
• 3+ years of provable success in alpha generation. Equities preferred.
• Advanced degree in a quantitative subject. Highly analytical and strong problem-solving skills and attention to detail.
• Strong communication skills with the ability to explain technical and sophisticated concepts clearly and concisely.