Junior Modeller- Trading Analyst- Quantitative Trading- Capital prop fund- $250K++ recruitment

US prop fund is looking to bring on board junior modellers and trading analysts for their quantitative trading desks in New York, Chicago, Massachusetts and San Francisco.

Overview

The firm are one of the leading quantitative trading and market making groups across the globe and have a dominant position in the US. They trade across the FX, futures, equities and currencies markets and are looking to bring on board junior modellers and trading analysts for their quantitative trading desks across the US. The firm have always hired quarterly and steadily allowing the juniors to truly understand the firm’s culture and slowly embed themselves into the full life cycle of the trading world. They support their staff with state of the art technology and great benefits and packages.

Duties

You can expect to come in at entry level having recently completed your PhD or masters in an analytical field. Ideally you will have a background in statistical or stochastic modelling, working with regression models, designing or optimising algorithms and working with patter recognition techniques. These skills may have been gained from a background in statistics, financial engineering, mathematics, Physics, computational mathematics or financial econometrics.

You will play a crucial part in the research phase of trading as well as working closely with traders in analysing trading models, optimising existing strategies and building new strategies using machine learning and data centric algorithms. The firm offer a very collegiate and entrepreneurial working environment allowing juniors to fully utilise their skill set and learn their real potential. The juniors that have come on board most recently at the firm have had 1or 2 relevant internships from outside of finance from the IT or software industry and are well perverse with programming in R, C++ or Java.

Profile

• Must have a strong academic background with strong GPA’s.

• Internships outside of finance are preferred but within finance will be considered also.

• Strong programming skills in R, C++ or Java.

• Looking to work in an entrepreneurial and innovative working environment.

• Strong modelling and analytical background.

• Strong maths and statistics skills.

Contact

If you find this role of interest please contact Rizwaan Ahmed on apply@mavenalpha.com quoting reference RZAM or by telephone at +44 (0)203 178 5678.