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Entry Level Quantitative Researcher
Schonfeld · Internal Portfolio Managers & Analysts
- Where
- New York, New York, United States
- Posted
- 6 days ago
We are seeking exceptional recent graduates or final year students to join one of our Quantitative Research teams in the New York City area metro area. As a Quant Researcher you will work with other researchers and developers on various research projects, including the design of novel predictive signals and the enhancement of our algorithms for prediction, trade execution, portfolio construction, risk management, among others. You will have an opportunity to meaningfully contribute to multiple facets of running a successful quantitative trading business and help it grow and diversify. This is a high‑impact role with clear ownership, mentorship, and visibility.
Variadic LLC, a Schonfeld partner, is a quantitative investment firm based in New York City.
What you'd do
- A Bachelor’s, Master’s, or PhD degree in a quantitative or technical field such as statistics, mathematics, physics, electrical engineering, or computer science (ideally a recent graduate or with one year left in your academic program)
- Ability to hit the ground running on projects written in C++, JavaScript, Python, Rust, and Go, using a mix of in-house and open-source libraries.
- Willingness to learn and work on any level of the stack to drive a project to completion, from building infrastructure to manually collecting and checking data to conducting machine learning studies to managing production.
- No job is too small or too big.
- Intuition for maximizing expected value in decisions involving imperfect information, sophisticated adversaries, high risk, and high potential reward.
- Spider sense for missing data, outliers, time-of-day issues, statistical errors, off-by-ones, convergence failures, and software bugs; willingness to dig into the details and carefully think through corner cases.
- Hard worker. An understanding that success comes from time and effort put in by everyone on the team.
About Schonfeld · Internal Portfolio Managers & Analysts
Schonfeld Strategic Advisors is a global multi-strategy, multi-manager investment platform that harnesses the transformative power of people to perform in all market environments. Our dynamic culture inspires better outcomes for our team, our investors, and our partners. We aim to consistently deliver risk-adjusted returns, with people driving performance. We specialize in four core strategies: Quantitative Trading, Fundamental Equity, Tactical Trading, and Discretionary Macro & Fixed Income.