Systematic Quant Research Analyst

PIMCO • Newport Beach, CA

24d

About The Position

PIMCO is a global leader in active fixed income with deep expertise across public and private markets. We invest our clients’ capital across a range of fixed income and credit opportunities, leveraging our decades of experience navigating complex debt markets. Our flexible capital base and deep relationships with issuers have helped us become one of the world’s largest providers of traditional and nontraditional solutions for companies that need financing and investors who seek strong risk-adjusted returns. Since 1971, our people have shaped our organization through a high-performance inclusive culture, in which we celebrate diverse thinking. We invest in our people and strive to imprint our CORE values of Collaboration, Openness, Responsibility and Excellence. We believe each of us is here to help others succeed and this has led to PIMCO being recognized as an innovator, industry thought leader and trusted advisor to our clients. By applying to this role, you will be considered for a position on the Quantitative Strategies Team within Portfolio Management: Quantitative Research Analyst: The team focuses on the development and implementation of quantitative trading strategies. In managing the implementation of various strategies, tasks includes generating trades by running code or spreadsheet, sending those trades to specialist desks for execution, making sure trades are allocated appropriately, verifying theoretical model positions with actual portfolio holdings, and looking at actual realized returns vs theoretical expectations. Team members perform research and backtest different trading strategies across various asset classes and test improvements for existing strategies. This involves working with specialist PMs in order to understand how market trades and building strategies to systematically capitalize on inefficiencies in addition to more exploratory work of looking for inefficiencies using statistical or other approaches. The group assists in the portfolio construction process and vetting of future strategies.

Requirements

• Master’s degree (financial engineering or other technically demanding program)
• Bachelor’s degree focus in Finance, Economics, or other technical degree is preferred
• Minimum 3.2 cumulative collegiate grade point average, on a 4.0 scale or the equivalent, at an accredited 4-year college or university
• Fluent in English (speaking, reading, writing)
• 2-3 years relevant experience

Nice To Haves

• Interest & background in finance theory, especially portfolio theory, asset allocation techniques, option pricing, and asset pricing.
• Experience in credit or interest rate markets preferred
• Direct experience running live strategies an advantage
• Programming skills and numerical problem solving techniques; training & experience with Python, Matlab, SAS, C++, or other related language. SQL knowledge preferred.
• Formal training in Econometrics is desired, particularly time series econometrics such as vector auto regression, error correction models, Kalman filtering techniques, etc.
• Comfortable working with large data sets, both structured & unstructured
• Good exposure to & knowledge of financial markets
• Ethical, intellectually curious, collaborative, organized, flexible, high energy, self-starter, accountable, humble

Responsibilities

• generating trades by running code or spreadsheet
• sending those trades to specialist desks for execution
• making sure trades are allocated appropriately
• verifying theoretical model positions with actual portfolio holdings
• looking at actual realized returns vs theoretical expectations
• perform research and backtest different trading strategies across various asset classes and test improvements for existing strategies
• working with specialist PMs in order to understand how market trades and building strategies to systematically capitalize on inefficiencies
• looking for inefficiencies using statistical or other approaches
• assists in the portfolio construction process and vetting of future strategies

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 1,001-5,000 employees