Quantitative Trader & Researcher
Locations: New York & Chicago

Salary: $120,000 - $200,000

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A leading high-frequency proprietary trading firm is seeking talented and experienced Quantitative Traders and Researchers to join their dynamic teams.

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As a Quantitative Trader / Researcher, you will leverage one of the fastest and most comprehensive in-house trading systems to develop and deploy algorithmic trading strategies based on patterns in market behavior.

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Responsibilities:

• Design, implement, and deploy trading algorithms
• Research high- to mid-frequency alphas
• Analyze market data, market microstructure, and alternative data sets for trading patterns
• Create tools to analyze data and support the development of data platforms
• Contribute to libraries of analytical computations for market data analysis and trading
• Develop, augment, and calibrate exchange simulators

Qualifications:
• Bachelor’s, Master’s, or PhD in Mathematics, Statistics, Computer Science, or a related STEM field
• Experience in quantitative trading preferred, but not required
• Strong background in mathematics and statistics
• Proficiency in back-testing, simulation, and statistical techniques such as auto-regression, auto-correlation, and Principal Component Analysis
• Solid data-mining and analysis skills, including experience with large data sets and tick data
• Familiarity with signal generation and statistical models
• Strong programming skills in Python or C++

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