Quant Investment Company Recruiting Senior Quant - New York, United States - Eka Finance

    Eka Finance background
    Description

    Role:-

    This role is ideal for an experienced researcher to join a well-positioned team at an early stage to deliver measurable and long-lasting PnL impact while collaborating with individuals with proven experience building some of the most profitable high-frequency strategies in the world.

    You will:-

    • Contribute to and drive research projects with heavy PnL impact, including alpha signal generation, statistical modelling and machine learning, strategy simulation and calibration, post-trade analysis, and so forth.
    • Develop or improve the teams research pipeline and simulation environments
    • Write production trading strategies (C++)

    Requirements:-

    • Significant experience in alpha generation or strategy research in quantitative trading, preferably in high-frequency trading
    • Significant experience in building research pipelines and tools for quantitative trading that process large volume of data in cloud or distributed computing environments
    • Significant experience in trading equities and/or futures in US and other major global markets
    • Strong publication record in machine learning, statistical modeling, optimization, signal processing, computer vision, natural language processing or a similar data-driven research field, e.g., NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, AAAI, KDD, JMLR, PAMI, etc. for machine learning.
    • Bachelors or advanced degree in a STEM major
    • Strong intuition, hands-on mentality, and keen interest in playing with data
    • Knowledge of statistics, statistical modeling or machine learning techniques and knowing whether, when and how to apply them in data-driven research
    • Programming skills in C++
    • Programming skills in Python or other scripting languages
    • Ideally 4+ years of working experience in quantitative trading, preferably in high-frequency trading
    • Demonstrated ability to write well-documented code
    • Passion for building research pipelines and tools

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