Quantitative Research Analyst - Jersey City, NJ

Stevens Capital Management LP•Jersey City, NJ

3d•$150,000 - $300,000•Onsite

About The Position

SCM is committed to a workplace that values and promotes diversity, inclusion and equal employment opportunity by ensuring that all employees are valued, heard, engaged and involved at work and have full opportunities to collaborate, contribute and grow professionally. We are currently seeking a highly driven, well organized, and motivated candidate to join our team.

Requirements

A bachelors or advanced degree in a field providing a background in advanced statistical analysis of large data sets (includes, but is not limited to, economics, finance, statistics, mathematics or computer science).
Programming experience, ideally including R, C++ and/or Python.
Strong working knowledge of regression, time series analysis and other statistical techniques.
The ability to comprehend and synthesize academic literature in finance, economics and statistics.
Strong financial market interest.
The ability to simplify and effectively communicate complex concepts.

Nice To Haves

Experience building, organizing and analyzing large data sets is preferred.

Responsibilities

Utilize your analytical and quantitative skills, market knowledge and intuition to develop and implement automated statistical trading models.
Participate in all aspects of research and trading model development, including generating research ideas, building and analyzing data sets, conducting statistical data analysis and implementing quantitative production trading models.