Quantitative Researcher (Full-Time - PhD+)

Company: Tbwa Chiat/Day Inc
Location: Chicago
Posted on: March 4, 2025

Job Description:

Quantitative Researcher (Full-Time - PhD+)Location: Chicago, AmsterdamAs a Quantitative Researcher, your focus is on identifying trading opportunities, leveraging strong quantitative skills and coding proficiency to accelerate the innovation process and help others leverage your work.By working on a variety of projects with different collaborators over a six-month period, you'll gain new knowledge and insight into the fundamentals of market dynamics, trading strategies, and our proprietary research platform. You'll have plenty of opportunities to contribute and directly affect our bottom line within your first few weeks on the team.While interest in trading is key, a background in finance is not required. Our team is built mostly from academia - professors, postdocs, PhDs, and undergraduates - not from other trading firms. We seek mental diversity and add a select group of academics each year from a wide range of disciplines.COMPENSATION - Competitive salary, plus quarterly bonus based on individual performance and contribution towards the success of others and the firm.QualificationsWe're looking for highly analytical individuals (math, physics, computer science, statistics, electrical engineering, etc.) who want to help build the research-driven trading firm of the future. The following qualities are essential:

• Persistent Drive to Improve: An innate desire to rise to the next level, even after great accomplishments.
• Creative Problem Solving and Probabilistic Thinking: Enjoy learning and implementing new concepts quickly, and take a data-driven and probabilistic approach to testing and implementing new ideas.
• Team Mindset: Understand that collaboration enhances individual performance.
• Mental Flexibility & Self Awareness: Adapt frequently based on new data, results, and feedback.
• Orientation for Making Money: Focus on high-value projects and innovative testing approaches.Research / Quant Trading Strategy SkillsSkills to have or develop include:
• Strong intuition and deep thinking with data sets; ability to design new alphas and understand complex systems.
• Demonstrates strong ability to quickly analyze data for empirical relationships.
• Familiarity with classical statistical methods and eagerness to learn new methods.
• Experience with modern AI techniques and methods or a desire to work on Applied Machine Learning Problems is a plus.
• Constantly questions finance/trading data and seeks answers despite challenges.
• Experience in setting up research frameworks and executing projects.
• Understanding of financial products, market dynamics, and microstructure.
• Proficiency in low-level computer languages like C++, Python, or Java.Apply for this job* indicates a required field
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