Applied Statistician/PhD/Post doc Researcher recruitment
The Fund has a proven track record within the global Equities and FX Statistical arbitrage markets and can offer a first class trading platform and highly stimulating working environment. This is a unique opportunity to work alongside world leading experts within the Systematic trading arena.
Assisting with trading strategy generation; responsibility will be given for the implementation of a diverse set of models, applying advanced statistical techniques and modeling methods to large real world financial datasets.
Candidates should possess an extremely strong background in statistics and preferably an interest in computer science. Candidates should also be familiar with methods for finding weak patterns in large data sets, dealing with non-normal data, and dealing with the danger of over-fit, especially in the case of there being a large number of variations tried.
The successful candidate should understand the theoretical justifications for the techniques as well as be able to create the software to apply the techniques, and where necessary develop those techniques into new areas.
Skills and attributes:
• PhD/Post doc researcher in statistics from a leading University.
• Experience of applying Statistical modeling techniques in a commercial (non-financial) environment.
• Hands-on ability to apply mathematical concepts to real world financial problems.
• Ability to work independently in a research environment.
• Programming skills i.e experience of using some of the following: R/S-plus, matlab, C++,Java, C# etc.
If you are interested in applying for this position please send your cv to Jon@joveinternational.com