Quant Trader / Quant Researcher – Alpha Generation – High Frequency (Prop) Trading & Automated Market Making recruitment

 My client is a privately held proprietary firm dedicated to Algorithmic Trading of FX, Fixed Income and Commodity products in the world’s financial markets. They trade on their world leading, cutting-edge electronic platform using proprietary models. From the HQ in Chicago and their affiliate in New York, my client executes multiple High Frequency Strategies across global markets.

My client combines driven and talented people from various disciplines and backgrounds with a view to becoming the world’s number one trading platform. These individuals combine to become a strong force that constantly researches and applies the most advanced technologies and mathematical applications to use in the financial markets. Due to the employment of diverse individuals and the focus on speed and accuracy, my client has a reputation for acting quickly and taking advantage of opportunities immediately upon identification.

Pre-requisites:

• Strong educational background in a Mathematical / Statistical background, ideally from in Ivy League school.

• Applicants are expected to have worked as part of a research team, contributing to a broader, aggregate research effort; or as an individual researcher working on personal individual strategies. 

• You should be able to demonstrate a track record of strategies that have gone live in production and have a demonstrable PnL track record or may also have worked on research that may have yet gone into production.

• Significant exposure to High Frequency Trading / Intra day strategies

My client is willing to entertain lengthy non-competes / gardening periods but is interested in having informal discussions at this point in time, with a view to a start date further down the line. My client has unlimited capital so will entertain salaries / total compensations of any number. NB: If your experience is highly relevant and you are concerned about being exposed / confidentiality then an informal chat / coffee can be arranged without a resume submission.

Please send your resume to l.jackson@westbourne-partners.com or call +44 (0) 7717 058 463 in complete confidence.