Entry level / Transition Role – Trading Research, Electronic Trading recruitment
Trading Researcher
Trading researchers play a mission critical role within the firm. Specifically, the focus is on the research of novel and the optimisation of existing automated trading strategies and algorithms.
As an entry-level trading researcher, you will be put through the firm’s comprehensive training program designed to produce versatile quantitative traders. This is not a classroom or simulated training program. From your first day, you will join a real time trading team and work on high impact research projects that will make a direct impact on revenues.
You will be assigned a mentor, typically a senior quantitative trader or desk head, whom will be responsible for helping you gain the diverse exposure to the variety of instruments, frequencies and markets the firm trades. This will allow you to graduate into a well rounded and robust quantitative trader who can make a significant contribution to the firm’s suite of strategies and algorithms.
Outside of the quality of work and intellectual rigour, the firm enjoys a collegiate culture. Trading researchers enjoy plenty of opportunity for growth and mobility within the firm.
Requirements
• M.S / PhD in a quantitative discipline from one of the leading US Universities.
• Extensive research experience in the application of statistical / machine learning techniques to massive datasets.
• Committed and longstanding interest in building a career in quantitative trading.
• Professionals with 1-5 years industry experience from the technology, internet, defence, engineering or similar industries are highly welcome.
• Collegiate and team player attitudes.
Contact
If you find this role of interest, please contact Fraiser Weiss in strict confidence on apply@mavenalpha.com or +44 (0)20 3178 5678 quoting the reference “FAWI”. Thank you – www.mavenalpha.com