Job Description

As a Quantitative Trader you will develop and deploy algorithmic trading strategies.  My clients are seeking candidates who are interested in starting/building their own teams, as well as those who would like to join an existing effort.  

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Designing, implementing, and deploying high-frequency trading algorithms
• Exploring trading ideas by analyzing market data and market micro-structure for patterns
• Creating tools to analyze data for patterns
• Contributing to libraries of analytical computations to support market data analysis and trading
• Develop novel Machine Learning Algorithms
• Developing, augmenting, and calibrating exchange simulators

QUALIFICATIONS

• A PhD from a top-tier university
• 2+ years of research experience in high-frequency trading, with a demonstrable track record
• A strong background in mathematics and statistics
• Proficiency in back-testing, simulation, and statistical techniques (auto-regression, auto-correlation, and Principal Component Analysis)
• Solid data-mining and analysis skills, including experience dealing with a large amount of data/tick data
• Familiarity with signal generation and statistical models
• Strong programming skills in C++, MATLAB, and R