Quantitative Researcher (Full-Time - PhD+)

The role

A Quantitative Researcher identifies trading opportunities. You will work on a variety of projects to gain insight into market dynamics, trading strategies, and a proprietary research platform.

What you will do

• Identify trading opportunities
• Design new alphas
• Understand complex systems
• Use hacking ability to look for empirical relationships in data
• Apply classical statistical methods
• Question finance and trading data
• Set up research frameworks and execute projects

Required qualifications

• Currently a PhD Student, Postdoc, Professor, or hold a similar advanced research position at a University
• Persistent Drive to Improve
• Creative Problem Solving and Probabilistic Thinking
• Team Mindset
• Mental Flexibility & Self Awareness
• Orientation for Making Money
• Strong intuition and deep thinking with data sets
• Familiarity with classical statistical methods
• Experience in setup of research framework and execution of projects
• Understanding of financial products, market dynamics, and microstructure
• Experience programming in Low-level computer languages (like C++)

Nice to have

• Experience with modern AI techniques and methods or desire to work on Applied Machine Learning Problems

Before you apply

• Please only apply to one of our Job Postings
• Do not submit multiple applications for different positions

About the company

Radix is a research-driven trading firm built mostly from academia.