NLP Researcher

New York. Posted 18 months ago

The role

This person will join an NLP quant team to develop and launch end-to-end signals. They will use NLP to construct features from varied datasets and build trading signals.

What you will do

Using NLP to construct features from varied datasets
Formulating research hypotheses to derive alpha
Building and testing the performance of trading signals based on NLP and financial features
Launching identified signals into production

Required qualifications

Bachelor’s, Master’s or PhD degree in computer science or other quantitative discipline
Proficient in Python and general software engineering principles (github, testing, dev workflow)
Strong understanding of machine learning and statistics
An interest in financial markets
Great attitude
A collaborative mindset
Commitment to the highest ethical standards

Nice to have

Prior research experience
Experience with deep learning, specifically NLP (PyTorch, HuggingFace, LLMs, etc.)
Data science stack familiarity

About the company

Point72 Asset Management is a global firm led by Steven Cohen that invests in multiple asset classes and strategies worldwide.