Quantitative Researcher

Job Duties:    Support and improve existing trading strategies focusing on Asian markets (JPX, HKEx et al.), assist senior quantitative researchers to carry out quantitative strategy design, research and development in global futures, stocks and options markets, statistically analyze large scale tick-by-tick financial data to extract alpha patterns, conceptualize valuation strategies, develop and continuously improve upon mathematical models, and help translate algorithms into code, back test and implement trading models and signals in an active, live trading environment, use unconventional data sources to drive innovation, conduct research and statistical analysis to build and refine monetization systems for trading signals.

Job Requirements: Master’s degree in Mathematics or Statistics plus two years of experience in data retrieving and cleaning, statistical analysis, and algorithm implementation; two years of experience in statistics analysis of hypothesis testing, nonparametric approaches, model selection. Knowledge of machine learning, and proficiency in using Python and C++.