Quantitative Research Analyst - Jersey City, NJ

The role

The candidate will develop and implement automated statistical trading models. They will participate in research and trading model development including generating ideas, building data sets, and conducting statistical analysis.

What you will do

• Utilize analytical and quantitative skills, market knowledge and intuition to develop and implement automated statistical trading models.
• Participate in all aspects of research and trading model development.
• Generate research ideas.
• Build and analyze data sets.
• Conduct statistical data analysis.
• Implement quantitative production trading models.

Required qualifications

• A bachelors or advanced degree in a field providing a background in advanced statistical analysis of large data sets (includes, but is not limited to, economics, finance, statistics, mathematics or co
• Programming experience, ideally including R, C++ and/or Python.
• Strong working knowledge of regression, time series analysis and other statistical techniques.
• The ability to comprehend and synthesize academic literature in finance, economics and statistics.
• Strong financial market interest.
• The ability to simplify and effectively communicate complex concepts.

Nice to have

• Experience building, organizing and analyzing large data sets is preferred.

Benefits

• bonus
• health and dental plans
• 401(k) contributions, which includes a discretionary profit sharing program

About the company

SCM is committed to a workplace that values and promotes diversity, inclusion and equal employment opportunity.