Quantitative Strategist, Macro Technology

Point72 • New York, NY

6d • $300,000 - $350,000

About The Position

As Point72 reimagines the future of investing, our Technology team is constantly evolving our firm’s IT infrastructure and engineering capabilities, positioning us at the forefront of a rapidly evolving technology landscape. We’re a team of experts who experiment and work to discover new ways to harness open-source solutions, modern cloud architectures, and sophisticated Artificial Intelligence (AI) solutions, while embracing enterprise agile methodologies. Our commitment to building and innovating in the AI space provides the framework intended to drive smarter decision making and enhance how we build and operate our platforms and applications.
As a member of Point72’s Technology team, we encourage and support your professional development from day one—helping you advance your technical skills, contribute innovative ideas, and satisfy your own intellectual curiosity—all while delivering real business impact for our multi-billion-dollar global business.

Requirements

• Post-graduate degree in a quantitative discipline from a top-tier university.
• 12–15 years of experience in Rates and FX quantitative analytics and development at a top-tier investment bank or hedge fund.
• Deep expertise in interest rate curve construction, including risk-free and term rates, multi-curve frameworks, and optimization-based curve bundle construction.
• Strong understanding of collateralized products, discounting frameworks, and curve modeling under CSA/OIS conventions.
• Experience across linear Rates, cash and derivative securities, and FX products.
• Proven track record in building pre-trade analytics, pricing tools, and research platforms for investment professionals.
• Proven experience in bond futures modeling, including embedded optionality, and hands-on work in bond relative value analysis and trading analytics
• Solid understanding of backtesting frameworks, historical analysis, and scenario-based research methodologies.
• Advanced programming skills in Python and C++, with experience developing production-quality analytics libraries.
• Strong communication skills and demonstrated ability to work closely with business stakeholders
• Commitment to the highest ethical standards.

Responsibilities

• Enhance and extend interest rate curve construction and bootstrapping methodologies for swaps and cash instruments across Developed and Emerging Markets.
• Advance linear FX analytics, including consistent treatment of FX OIS discounting, basis, and turn adjustments.
• Deliver robust, scalable analytics combining real-time pricing, historical valuation, and scenario-based research.
• Design and build pre-trade pricing and analytics tools for investment professionals, covering linear Rates and FX products.
• Develop scenario analysis frameworks enabling investment professionals to define market and curve shocks and assess pricing, risk, and PnL impacts.
• Develop relative value, carry, roll-down, and cross-market analytics for linear Rates and FX strategies.
• Define and maintain robust market data handling, validation, and historical consistency for Rates and FX analytics.
• Work closely with investment professionals to translate trading ideas and relative-value views into quantitative analytics and tooling.
• Contribute to the firm’s core analytics libraries and data architecture, with a focus on robustness, performance, and extensibility across asset classes.

Benefits

• Fully-paid health care benefits
• Generous parental and family leave policies
• Mental and physical wellness programs
• Volunteer opportunities
• Non-profit matching gift program
• Support for employee-led affinity groups representing women, minorities and the LGBT+ community
• Tuition assistance
• A 401(k) savings program with an employer match and more

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level