Junior Equity Quant Researcher

Posted 4 days ago by Verition Fund Management LLC

Permanent
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Research Jobs
London, United Kingdom
Job Description

Verition Fund Management LLC ("Verition") is a multi-strategy, multi-manager hedge fund founded in 2008. Verition focuses on global investment strategies including Global Credit, Global Convertible, Volatility & Capital Structure Arbitrage, Event-Driven Investing, Equity Long/Short & Capital Markets Trading, and Global Quantitative Trading.

We are seeking a Quantitative Researcher to join a systematic Equities team in London.The team's approach is unique, working at the intersection of the systematic and fundamental investment processes, with a strong track record of alpha-generation.This is a front-office role, you will be involved in the whole investment process with a direct contribution into the team's bottom line.You will be given the opportunity to steer the role in your preferred direction, as you focus more on the alpha-generation angle or on the infrastructure angle over time.

Responsibilities

  • Help management and scaling-up of a quantamental, mid-frequency, equities portfolio
  • Day-to-day oversight fo theproduction processes
  • Research and develoment of new signals: including idea generation, data ingestion, research and trading
  • Build-out of the systematic trading infrastructure

Required Qualifications

  • 1-3 years as a Quantitative Researcher, Quantitative Developer, Data Analyst or Data Scientist
  • Experience with equities and equities data (alternative data, market data, fundamental data)
  • BSc / MSc / PhD in technical discipline from a top university
  • Experience using Python in a production setting (expertise in Pandas, Numpy, Airflow

Preferred Qualifications

  • Exposure to the systematic trading process
  • Experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS preferred) with working knowledge of multiple AWS services (S3, EC2, EKS, SQS, Redshift, IAM, )
  • Experience working in a Linux environment
  • Exposure to the fundamental investment process (e.g. Data Analyst working alongside fundamental PMs)
  • Experience with web-scraping
  • Experience with execution, TCA and commercial risk-models
  • Open to candidates from the buy-side (HF and asset managers), sell-side (Equity research) and alternative data vendors
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