About the Opportunity
Our client is a tech-powered investment company in New York City that is in search of a Quant Researcher. This role will join the company’s dynamic Investment Team, which includes the Chief Investment Officer, a fellow Quant Researcher, and a Software Engineer.
The annual base salary range is $130,000 to $360,000. Actual compensation offered to the successful candidate may vary from posted hiring range based upon geographic location, work experience, education, and/or skill level, among other things. Details about eligibility for bonus compensation (if applicable) will be finalized at the time of offer.
Job Responsibilities
- ETL large, structured data sets
- Work with the portfolio manager to understand key drivers of a company and its industry
- Collaborate with the team to develop and test hypotheses using structured data
- Digest and assess data relevancy and incorporate this into the hypotheses
- Build advanced statistical models to determine causations, correlations, and statistical significance
- Track data relevancy and correlation or causation to stock price movements
- Present research findings to the CIO and portfolio manager
Job Requirements
- Bachelors Degree in math, statistics, computer science, engineering, or physics
- Advanced degree desirable but not required
- CFA desirable but not required
- Prior investment experience desirable but not required
- Strong knowledge of Python, including numpy and pandas
- Fluent in SQL and RDBMS development and management
- Strong knowledge of probabilities, statistics, modeling, and forecasting
- Research and data analysis experience
- Experience with R
- API integration and management
- VBA desirable but not required
