Research Associate
We are looking for new Associates to join our Research team. Our Research group is a collaborative, intellectually rigorous team responsible for coming up with investment ideas, codifying those ideas into signals, back-testing the signals, and producing return and risk forecasts based on the signals to drive trading decisions.
Responsibilities
- Your responsibilities are expected to grow in line with your experience and abilities. Depending on your competitive advantages, typical responsibilities may include:
- Merging, structuring, and analyzing large amounts of data from various sources
- Assessing quality of historical panel data, diagnosing deficiencies and prescribing fixes
- Working with developers to design feeds for new data sources from third-party vendors
- Participating in data architecture decision-making to support research analytics platform
- Performing ad-hoc exploratory statistics and analysis on research data sets
- Writing and maintaining code that supports the investment research process
- Researching predictable patterns in asset returns, risks, and trading costs
Qualifications
- An undergraduate or graduate degree from a top educational institution in a technical field, such as applied mathematics, economics, engineering or computer science
- Demonstrated professional or academic success (recent graduates are encouraged to apply)
- Strong analytical, quantitative, and problem solving skills
- Understanding of probability, statistics, linear regression, and time-series analysis
- Experience with a statistical computing environment such as Stata, R, or SAS
- Experience analyzing large data sets
- Interest in financial markets
- Great communication skills
In addition, we are looking for either:
- Expert programming skills
- Experience with programming in Python
- Experience with database software such as MS SQL Server
or
- Good understanding of the academic field of empirical asset pricing
- Familiarity with financial data products such as Worldscope, Thomson Reuters Estimates, etc.
- Experience with stock market data sets
Please include a cover letter detailing your short and long-term career goals as well as your resume and transcript(s) upon submission of your application.
We maintain a friendly, team-oriented environment and place a high value on professionalism, attitude, and initiative.