Quantitative Engineering - Associate

Job Description

Strategists create cutting-edge models, pricers, analytics, data visualization, and trading tools, for our external and internal clients. They are expected to develop an in-depth understanding of the financial products, markets, risk management, and pricing of a wide range of products, models, and asset classes offered by the firm. This presents a highly visible platform to use your skills and knowledge to make a direct impact on the firm’s bottom line.

Responsibilities:

• Design and implement models to risk manage complex financial products
• Build low latency, highly-scalable software, and systems for pricing, risk models, quoting, and analytics
• Work on large datasets to extract useful insights into firm’s risks
• Partner with the trading desk to develop and implement quantitative, technological solutions as global market and economic conditions change
• Collaborate efficiently within a diverse global team spanning multiple continents
• Increase client market share via innovative tools and data analytics
• Work in a fast-paced, high-pressure environment as a self-starter
• Client focus: think of APIs as a service and provide internal and external users with outstanding SLAs

Basic Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in a relevant field: Mathematics, Finance, Computer Science, Physics, Engineering
• Knowledge about popular design patterns and algorithms
• Excellent programming skills in a major programming language
• Efficient and effective communication skills
• Strong quantitative and analytical skills
• In-depth knowledge of analytics, trading environment, and risk management of at least one financial asset class
• Competence in statistics and linear algebra

Preferred Qualifications:

• Competence in data science, stochastic processes, and advanced mathematics
• Experience working with large data sets and real-time systems
• Knowledge of more than one financial asset class