Title: Quant Researcher
Compensation: 150k-250k base salary + discretionary bonus
Summary: A very successful boutique prop trading firm that specializes in trading energy commodities is looking to bring on a Quant Researcher to work alongside traders and their core research team. This is an opportunity to join a fast growing, non-siloed, collaborative team where ideas are quickly implemented into production.
Location: Flexible between New York, Chicago, and Connecticut
Responsibilities:
- Research new trading strategies and improve existing strategies using sophisticated machine learning and statistical techniques
- Optimize and support existing models
- Create new ideas that impact the way the firm leverages market and alternative data
Qualifications:
- Masters or PhD in Mathematics, Computer Science, Statistics, Physics, or Engineering
- 3-8 years of experience in machine learning, statistics, or related area within finance or a quantitative field
- Strong in Python, C++ or SQL is a plus
- Experience working with large, noisy, or incomplete data sets
- Experience creating mathematical models and complex strategies to solve problems
- Ability to work independently and in cross functional teams
- Familiarity with AWS ecosystem is a plus
- Time series analysis experience is a plus
