Quant Researcher - Industry-Specific KPI Signals
A leading $5Bn hedge fund is bringing on a new Portfolio Manager in London. This new pod develops fundamental equity stat arb strategies, focusing on global healthcare and consumer stocks.
They are looking for a Quantitative Researcher to support this buildout.
The hedge fund prides itself on providing high quality data and infrastructure for trading, ensuring strategies can be developed and begin running quickly.
Responsibilities
- Generating alpha signals from traditional market and alternative data.
- Supporting the development of a robust framework for signal generation, optimisation, and back-testing.
- Contributing to the research and trading pipeline, including Risk and Factor Modelling.
Requirements
- Advanced degree in a quantitative field such as Mathematics, Physics, Computer Science, or Engineering.
- Demonstrated experience with leveraging Machine Learning models to generate signals from traditional and alternative data.
- Demonstrated experience in equity stat arb strategies.
- Strong coding skills in at least one of the following programming languages: Python, R, Matlab and /or C++, C#.
- Experience with global healthcare, consumer, and/or industrial stocks required.
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