Machine Learning Quant Researcher

Overview

In this role you apply machine learning and data science to identify alphas from large datasets for a systematic trading firm. You will collaborate with researchers, developers and traders to develop and implement monetizable strategies and monitor their performance. The work is global, with a strong emphasis on sharing ideas and building reusable tools across the firm. This is an opportunity to shape quantitative research in a fast-paced, finance-focused environment with tangible impact on trading outcomes.

Pay / Benefits

• salary 150,000-200,000 GBP
• discretionary end-of-year bonus
• onsite work in Central London

Responsibilities

• Research and apply ML and data science techniques to identify alphas from datasets
• Collaborate with researchers, developers and traders to develop and implement trading strategies
• Monitor strategy performance over time
• Share ideas and contribute tools for cross-team use across the firm
• Collaborate with global teams to expand business and build skills

Key requirements

• Academic background in numerical fields; PhD preferred but not required
• Finance knowledge from studies/internships/experience
• Expert Python coding with data science libraries

• collaboration
• communication
• problem-solving
• Machine Learning
• Deep Learning
• Reinforcement Learning

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