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Programme
Graduate
Location
New York City, NY
About the role
Quantitative Systematic Traders build, deploy, and improve fully automated trading strategies using probability, statistics, machine learning, market intuition, and large-scale data. The role combines quantitative research with live-market execution, strategy monitoring, alpha monetization, and risk management. It is designed for PhD candidates graduating by Summer 2027 or postdoctoral researchers.
Responsibilities
- Apply probability, statistics, machine learning, and quantitative modelling to analyze market behaviour.
- Build and optimize automated trading strategies using quantitative signals, trading intuition, and live-market insights.
- Monitor strategy performance, tune parameters, and respond to trading anomalies in real time.
- Collaborate with researchers and technologists to develop components of the execution engine.
- Use proprietary datasets, large-scale simulation, and computing infrastructure for research and experimentation.
Training and Environment
- Participate in a comprehensive education programme designed to accelerate professional development.
- Receive personalized mentorship from senior professionals.
- Work in small, collaborative teams with researchers, traders, and engineers.
- Develop ideas through open debate, evidence-based decisions, and continuous experimentation.
Requirements
- PhD graduating by Summer 2027 or postdoctoral experience in a highly quantitative discipline.
- Strong foundation in probability, statistics, optimization, numerical methods, or quantitative modelling.
- Experience developing research code in Python and working with large datasets.
- Interest in trading, market microstructure, and using quantitative models for real decisions.
- Strong problem-solving, communication, collaboration, intellectual curiosity, and competitive drive.
Additional Details
- Opportunities are available in New York and Philadelphia; the listing is for New York.
- Visa sponsorship is available for this position.
- Applicants are automatically considered for the Quantitative Researcher position.
- The role is identified as onsite.