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Quantitative Researcher - New York, United States - Harnham

Harnham New York, United States

2 weeks ago

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Quantitative Researcher

New York, New York

$180,000-200,000 base salary + bonus + benefits

Harnham is partnered with one of the top hedge funds in the NYC area. They are looking for an experienced Quantitative Researcher with a background in building machine learning, deep learning, and applied statistics models for quantitative applications. This person will sit in their Quant Research team and work on portfolio projects across the business.

THE ROLE

You will build machine learning, deep learning, and applied statistics models aimed at improving investment strategy and trading
You will analyze large datasets from a variety of alternative data sources i.e. mapping, geographic, location, advertising, search history and other real-world data
Own development of new platforms for equity and macro products for use both nationally and internationally
Run simulations to determine interesting companies for trading
Work closely with internal stakeholders
Help in mentoring a fast-growing team

YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE

The successful Quantitative Researcher will likely have the following skills and experience:

3-5 years of commercial experience building machine learning and deep learning models for quantitative applications
Experience using Python for predictive modeling and data manipulation is preferred
Commercial experience using machine learning, deep learning and Bayesian statistics
Comfortable leading research projects
Familiarity reinforcement learning and neural networks preferred
History of partnering with non-technical stakeholders in different departments
MS or PhD degree in Computer Science, Statistics, Operations Research, Financial Engineering or similar field preferred

Quantitative Researcher - New York, United States - Harnham

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