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Quant Researcher

Added 6 days ago

We are seeking a highly skilled Quant Developer to join our trading system development team. You will play a critical role in building, optimising, and maintaining a high-performance, low-latency trading system. This is an exciting opportunity to work in a fast-paced, collaborative environment and make a direct impact on trading strategies and operations.

Responsibilities

  • Design, research, and validate systematic alpha factors across price, order book, funding, flow, and microstructure data
  • Build and maintain a structured alpha research pipeline (data → feature → signal → evaluation → iteration)
  • Conduct factor analysis including IC, IR, decay, stability, regime sensitivity, and turnover analysis
  • Collaborate with engineering teams to ensure research outputs are production-ready
  • Continuously iterate and improve existing alpha signals, even if historical performance has decayed
  • Explore AI-assisted research workflows for factor generation, feature selection, and hypothesis exploration (bonus)

Requirements

  • 3+ years of quantitative research experience in systematic trading, alpha research, or related fields
  • Strong proficiency in Python, with hands-on experience using Jupyter Notebook as a primary research environment
  • Solid understanding of the end-to-end alpha research process, including: Data cleaning & normalization, Feature engineering, Factor construction, Signal evaluation & validation.
  • Have built and operated a complete alpha research framework (personal or professional)
  • Proven experience discovering alpha factors with strong historical predictive power, e.g.: 1. Information Coefficient (IC) consistently above 0.05–0.1 on daily frequency or higher IC on lower-frequency signals with reasonable stability (factors that later decayed are acceptable, as long as the original research process was sound)
  • Strong analytical thinking and ability to explain why a factor works, not just that it works

Nice to have

  • Experience using AI / ML models (e.g. tree models, neural networks, representation learning) for alpha research
  • Hands-on experience with local deployment of AI models (not just calling APIs)
  • Familiarity with AI-assisted factor discovery workflows (feature generation, signal screening, regime detection, etc.)
  • Background in crypto, derivatives, or high-frequency / microstructure-driven markets