Quantitative Research Analyst

2 weeks ago


Newport Beach, California, United States PIMCO Full time
Quantitative Research Analyst

PIMCO is a global leader in active fixed income with deep expertise across public and private markets. We invest our clients' capital across a range of fixed income and credit opportunities, leveraging our decades of experience navigating complex debt markets. Our flexible capital base and deep relationships with issuers have helped us become one of the world's largest providers of traditional and nontraditional solutions for companies that need financing and investors who seek strong risk-adjusted returns.

Since 1971, our people have shaped our organization through a high-performance inclusive culture, in which we celebrate diverse thinking. We invest in our people and strive to imprint our CORE values of Collaboration, Openness, Responsibility, and Excellence. We believe each of us is here to help others succeed and this has led to PIMCO being recognized as an innovator, industry thought leader, and trusted advisor to our clients.

Job Summary

The Quantitative Research Analyst will be part of the Quantitative Strategies Team within Portfolio Management. The team focuses on the development and implementation of quantitative trading strategies. In managing the implementation of various strategies, tasks include generating trades by running code or spreadsheet, sending those trades to specialist desks for execution, making sure trades are allocated appropriately, verifying theoretical model positions with actual portfolio holdings, and looking at actual realized returns vs theoretical expectations.

Responsibilities
  • Perform research and backtest different trading strategies across various asset classes and test improvements for existing strategies.
  • Work with specialist PMs to understand how market trades and build strategies to systematically capitalize on inefficiencies.
  • Assist in the portfolio construction process and vetting of future strategies.
Requirements
  • Master's degree in financial engineering or other technically demanding program.
  • Bachelor's degree focus in Finance, Economics, or other technical degree preferred.
  • Minimum 3.2 cumulative collegiate grade point average, on a 4.0 scale or the equivalent, at an accredited 4-year college or university.
  • Fluent in English (speaking, reading, writing).
  • 2-3 years relevant experience.
Desired Skills and Characteristics
  • Interest and background in finance theory, especially portfolio theory, asset allocation techniques, option pricing, and asset pricing.
  • Experience in credit or interest rate markets preferred.
  • Direct experience running live strategies an advantage.
  • Programming skills and numerical problem-solving techniques; training and experience with Python, Matlab, SAS, C++, or other related language. SQL knowledge preferred.
  • Formal training in Econometrics is desired, particularly time series econometrics such as vector auto regression, error correction models, Kalman filtering techniques, etc.
  • Comfortable working with large data sets, both structured and unstructured.
  • Good exposure to and knowledge of financial markets.
  • Ethical, intellectually curious, collaborative, organized, flexible, high energy, self-starter, accountable, humble.
Compensation

PIMCO follows a total compensation approach when rewarding employees, which includes a base salary and a discretionary bonus. Base salary is the fixed component of compensation that is determined by core job responsibilities, relevant experience, internal level, and market factors. The discretionary bonus is used to award performance and therefore is determined by company, business, team, and individual performance.

Salary Range: $165,000.00 - $225,000.00



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