Quantitative Researcher - Macro
finance:systematicquant-researchIC4Quant Management
Compensation
Not disclosed
About Cubist
Cubist Systematic Strategies, an affiliate of Point72, deploys systematic, computer-driven trading strategies across multiple liquid asset classes, including equities, futures and foreign exchange. The core of our effort is rigorous research into a wide range of market anomalies, fueled by our unparalleled access to a wide range of publicly available data sources.
Role
Quantitative researcher to help build out a systematic macro (futures, FX, and vol) strategies. Core focus will be working on mid-frequency alpha strategies.
Job Description
Develop systematic trading models across FX, commodities, fixed income, and equity markets
Alpha idea generation, backtesting, 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
Desirable Candidates
Masters or PhD in mathematics, statistics, physics or other quantitative discipline. PhD in statistics or machine learning is a plus
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
Thorough understanding of and comfort using a variety of regression techniques—including OLS, MLS, Ridge, Lasso, and Bayesian inference—as well as techniques for dealing with errors that can occur, such as auto-correlation and heteroskedasticity
Experience managing and running risk is a strong plus
Proficiency in Python using the machine learning stack—numpy, pandas, scikit-learn, etc.
Creative mindset
Strong tim