Tier 1 Hedge Fund Hiring Assistant PMs/ Strong Optimization Focus/ C++/ Global Locations/£ Very Competitive recruitment
Role:-
The successful candidate will work with a portfolio manager to maintain and expand the domestic and international equities portfolio. Possible tasks for the successful candidate would be overseeing and optimizing the trading of existing signals in developed or emerging markets as well as research and creation of new signals. Prior systematic trading experience is not a requisite although will be classed as desirable.
You will be involved in producing new trading ideas and this will involve the application of mathematical modelling techniques. The role offers fantastic career progression and the individual will be responsible for developing high frequency trading models using mathematical and computational techniques and manipulating and analyzing very large time series data sets. Ideally the candidates will take on a senior role with more responsibility and running their own trading portfolio after 18 months to 2 years after working on the full life cycle and understanding the true values of the firm
Requirements:-
To apply for this position, you must ideally have a first class degree and a PhD in ideally Signal Processing, Statistics, Operations Research, Maths, Econometrics.
The ideal candidate will be a PhD with optimization focus who is a very strong programmer in 2 of the following:- C++, Perl , Python and who has some finance exposure.
Understanding of optimization theory and algorithms (including dynamic programming, large-scale linear and non-linear programming, interior point methods, genetic algorithms, simulated annealing and robust optimization, machine learning) a plus.
Attention to detail.
The firm have an academic, research orientated environment within their Quant team, so impressive academic credentials and papers are viewed very favourably. This is a great chance to learn from a highly profitable group of traders and develop skills in the practical application of trading systems strategy development across all target markets.