
Quant Pod Hiring Multiple Macro Researchers / Paris / London -$ Base + Sign On
Why this role stands out
This is an exciting opportunity to build a new systematic macro business, developing innovative alpha strategies across diverse markets and contributing directly to the growth of a cutting-edge investment process. You'll thrive here if you possess a strong quantitative background and a passion for alpha research, with the flexibility of a hybrid work model in Paris or London.
Quick overview
Job description
Role:-
Quantitative researcher to help build out a new systematic macro (futures, FX, and vol) business. The main focus will be working on mid-frequency alpha strategies.
- Develop systematic trading models across FX, commodities, fixed income, and equity markets
- Alpha idea generation, back testing, and implementation
- Assist in building, maintenance, and continual improvement of production and trading environments
- Evaluate new datasets for alpha potential
- Improve existing strategies and portfolio optimization
- Execution monitoring
- Be a core contributor to growing the investment process and research infrastructure of the team
Requirements:-
- PhD in mathematics, statistics, physics or other quantitative discipline.
- Experience in quantitative trading, ideally in FX or futures
- Experience with alpha research, portfolio construction and optimization
- Experience building statistical/technical, fundamental, and data driven signals
- Experience synthesizing predictive signals for both cross-sectional and time-series models
- Strong experience with data exploration, dimension reduction, and feature engineering
- Proficiency in Python using the machine learning stack—numpy, pandas, scikit-learn, etc.
Apply:-
Please send a PDF CV to quants@ekafinance.com
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