Radixuniversity
Quantitative Researcher (Full-Time - Master’s/Bachelor’s)
Chicago, New York, Amsterdam. Posted 6 months ago
The role
A Quantitative Researcher identifies trading opportunities. You will work on a variety of projects with different collaborators 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
- Highly analytical
- 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
- 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
About the company
Radix is a research-driven trading firm built mostly from academia.