Quantitative Researcher

4 weeks ago

Chicago, Illinois, United States Radix Trading University Job Board Full time

We're seeking a highly analytical individual to join our research team as a Quantitative Researcher. As a key member of our team, you'll be responsible for identifying trading opportunities and developing strong quantitative skills to accelerate the innovation process.


During your six-month tenure, you'll work on various projects with different collaborators, gaining new knowledge and insight into market dynamics, trading strategies, and our proprietary research platform.

We've removed the boundaries of what you can access and touch internally, allowing you to contribute directly to our bottom line within your first few weeks on the team.


While interest in trading is essential, a background in finance is not required. Our team is comprised of academics from various disciplines, including professors, postdocs, PhDs, and undergraduates.


Over the past year, our new associates have come from prestigious institutions such as Harvard, MIT, Cambridge, Princeton, Yale, IAS, UPenn, Stanford, Washington, UChicago, Caltech, and more.


**Compensation**

We offer a competitive salary, plus a quarterly bonus based on individual performance and contribution towards the success of others and the firm.


Qualifications

We're looking for individuals with a strong analytical mindset, preferably in math, physics, computer science, statistics, electrical engineering, or related fields.


To succeed in this role, you'll need to possess the following qualities:

  • Persistent Drive to Improve: A desire to continuously improve and rise to the next level.
  • Creative Problem Solving and Probabilistic Thinking: The ability to learn and implement new concepts quickly, combining knowledge from different domains to create new ideas.
  • Team Mindset: A commitment to making the team better through sharing ideas and improving individual performance.
  • Mental Flexibility & Self Awareness: The ability to adapt based on new data, results, and feedback on your trading ideas and performance.
  • Orientation for Making Money: A focus on creating value for the firm, rather than an academic exercise.


Research / Quant Trading Strategy Skills

We're looking for individuals with the following skills or a willingness to develop them:

  • Strong intuition and deep thinking with data sets: Designing new alphas, understanding complex systems, and knowing where to start or ask others to start.
  • Demonstrates strong 'hacking' ability: Quickly getting into data to look for empirical relationships and deciphering noise or signal.
  • Familiarity with classical statistical methods: Knowing when and how to apply them in a rigorous fashion and easily learning new statistical methods.
  • Experience with modern AI techniques and methods or a desire to work on Applied Machine Learning Problems: A plus.
  • Constantly questioning finance/trading data: Staying motivated to seek answers despite often proving that there is no correlation or signal.
  • Experience in setting up research frameworks and executing projects.
  • Understanding of financial products, market dynamics, and microstructure.
  • Low-level computer languages like C++, Python, Java, etc.: Awareness of strength in particular languages and ability to solve more complex problems due to understanding nuances of the language.

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