Quantitative Trader
Systematic Trader - U.S. Equities (Mid-Senior Level)
A Global Proprietary Trading firm is looking to add a Systematic Trader to its U.S. Equities business. This role is focused on identifying, developing, and scaling systematic strategies across highly liquid equity markets, with particular interest in professionals experienced in electronic market-making, statistical arbitrage, HFT, and short-horizon mean reversion strategies.
You'll join a highly technical organization where traders, researchers, and engineers work closely together to own the entire trading life-cycle, from idea generation and research through deployment and live trading. The firm provides a strong technology stack, extensive market data resources, and the autonomy to drive strategy development and performance.
Responsibilities:
- Research, develop, and optimize systematic trading strategies across U.S. equities.
- Generate alpha through quantitative analysis of market microstructure, order flow, and tick-level data.
- Monitor live trading performance and conduct PnL attribution, execution analysis, and risk assessment.
- Collaborate with researchers and developers to move strategies from research into production.
- Identify new trading opportunities and contribute to the expansion of the firm's U.S. equities platform.
Requirements:
- 4+ years of experience in systematic trading, quantitative research, or quantitative trading.
- Strong background trading or researching U.S. equities.
- Demonstrated success developing and managing intraday, HFT, statistical arbitrage, mean reversion, or market-making strategies.
- Deep understanding of market microstructure, liquidity, order book dynamics, and execution.
- Strong programming skills in Python, C++, or a similar language.
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