Independent Quantitative Analyst
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Quantitative analyst producing systematic trading research, proprietary datasets, and actionable investment insights. Serving institutional asset managers through Smartkarma’s cloud-based research platform.
Responsibilities:
- Produce actionable trade and investment ideas based on statistically validated signals and market intuition
- Conduct factor, risk premia, and alpha research
- Develop event-driven and catalyst frameworks covering earnings, guidance, corporate actions, index changes, and macroeconomic releases
- Analyze cross-asset linkages and market regimes, including risk-on/off, inflation, rates sensitivity, liquidity, positioning, and flows
- Publish differentiated research insights and participate in discussions with institutional clients
- Provide high-touch service for select institutional clients
- Use Smartkarma’s cloud-based platform to curate and monetize independent investment research
Requirements:
- Former/current systematic trader or quant researcher/analyst experience
- Expertise in systematic strategies across equities, equity derivatives, and multi-asset products, including listed and OTC options and futures
- Strong research hygiene, including signal research, feature engineering, robust backtesting across horizons, realistic frictions, and clear validation
- Ability to combine market intuition with statistical learning
- Experience creating and maintaining proprietary datasets and models, including data collection, cleaning, normalization, mapping, signal construction, and production pipelines
- Strong writing and communication skills
- Extensive research, trading, or investment experience for institutional clients (8+ years)
- Demonstrated quantitative track record and evidence of proprietary work, including datasets, models, tooling, and strategy research
- Ability to write differentiated insights for professional investors that are structured, concise, and defensible
Benefits:
- Employees can work remotely
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