Senior Quantitative Researcher

1 Month ago • 2-2 Years • Research Development

Job Summary

Job Description

Jane Street Group, LLC is seeking Senior Quantitative Researchers with OCaml experience. Responsibilities include independently analyzing large datasets, applying machine learning techniques, building and testing models, creating trading strategies, and implementing them in code. Key duties involve managing quantitative research, reviewing junior researchers' work, mentoring them in statistical modeling, financial markets, and OCaml programming, liaising with traders on valuation and trading methods, and maintaining trading systems in OCaml.
Must have:
  • 3 or 4 year Bachelor’s Degree in Math, Physics, Engineering, Computer Science or related field
  • 2 years of experience in quantitative research within financial markets
  • 1 year of experience developing software in OCaml
  • 1 year of experience analyzing and building models for financial asset prices in Python and pandas
  • 1 year of experience contributing to and maintaining a large production codebase
Good to have:
  • Reviewing and vetting research performed by (Junior) Quantitative Researchers
  • Mentoring and training (Junior) Quantitative Researchers
  • Liaising with Traders regarding trading opportunities, expectancy, and risks

Job Details

Senior Quantitative Researchers 

OCaml Experience

Jane Street Group, LLC has openings for Senior Quantitative Researchers - multiple openings in New York, NY.

The position duties are as follows:  Independently analyze large datasets using a variety of machine learning techniques, build and test models, create new trading strategies and write the code that implements them. Day-to-day job duties include:

  • Independently managing and executing quantitative research;
  • Reviewing and vetting research performed by (Junior) Quantitative Researchers;
  • mentoring and training (Junior) Quantitative Researchers in statistical and modeling techniques, Financial markets, and idioms of the OCaml programming language;
  • Liaising with Traders regarding trading opportunities, expectancy, and risks pertaining to proprietary valuation and trading methods; and
  • Implementing, configuring, and maintaining production trading systems in OCaml.

The position requires a  3 or 4 year Bachelor’s Degree in Mathematics, Physics, Engineering, Computer Science or a related scientific or quantitative field or foreign equivalent plus 2 years of experience in any occupation where an individual gains experience conducting quantitative research in the context of financial markets. Experience must include: 

  1. 1 year of experience developing software in OCaml;
  2. 1 year of experience analyzing and building models for financial asset prices in python and pandas;
  3. 1 year of experience contributing to and maintaining a large production codebase.

Ref. SQR25

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About The Company

Jane Street is a quantitative trading firm with offices in New York, London, Hong Kong, Singapore, and Amsterdam. We are always recruiting top candidates and we invest heavily in teaching and training. The environment at Jane Street is open, informal, intellectual, and fun. People grow into long careers here because there are always new and interesting problems to solve, systems to build, and theories to test.



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