A highly successful fund with over $7 billion under management is looking to bring on quant researchers and quant traders to a number of different teams specializing in different asset classes. They are a multi strategy fund and the systematic group has infrastructure to support different asset classes.

You will join a collegiate and industry leading team (that forms one part of the overall quantitative group). This sub team is focused on researching and deploying systematic futures strategies. The team already enjoys a strong suite of strategies and their contribution to overall pnl of the group has been very strong. However, they feel that there is still a great deal more room for them to grow. Particularly in the area of high frequency trading.

The ideal candidate will have a background in modeling FX, Futures, equities or fixed income and possess an excellent academic background, and ideally a post-graduate qualification in a numerical subject I.e. Mathematics or Physics and will have strategies either in the incubation phase of development of ready for deployment.

The candidate must be able to demonstrate the ability to: -

• Design and code high frequency simulators for liquidity taking and liquidity provision including detailed simulations of different matching engines.
• Research, develop, implement and monitor performance of algorithms.
• Develop high frequency trading strategies in any asset class.
• Excellent technological, mathematical, statistical, modelling and data analysis skills
• Develop short term strategies and models that have relatively low correlation to traditional trend-following models.
This is a very exclusive role to join one of the cities best performing hedge funds. You will be working with some of the best traders where you will be given the opportunity to learn and share highly profitable trading strategies. The core platform is already in place, successfully trading on a limited number of venues. In addition to dedicated technology resources you will have access to a broader technology team when required.

Being one of the most successful companies in the city the rewards are market beating. You will receive a considerable amount in terms of PnL % payout and a very competitive basic.

The group is aggressively hiring for this position