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Selby Jennings

Quant Researcher (New York)

Selby Jennings, New York, New York, United States, 10261

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I'm working with a global multi-strategy quantitative investment group looking to onboard a Quantitative Researcher to drive midhorizon alpha discovery and production. The opportunity is centered around strategies designed within intraday to fewday holding periods, deployed in a highly systematic manner across macro (futures, FX). Responsibilities: ~Own the research lifecycle from endtoend: ideation, data acquisition/cleaning, feature engineering, model development, backtesting, stress testing, and live deployment. ~Design systematic strategies spanning futures, FX, IRS, and CDX, selecting instruments with sufficient liquidity, reliable data, and clear operational feasibility. ~Collaborate closely with quantitative developers, portfolio managers, and execution teams to ensure strategies are scalable, monitorable, and operationally sound. ~Contribute to platform evolution: improve backtesting fidelity, alpha research tooling, and workflow productivity through reusable libraries, robust test suites, and thoughtful documentation. ~Monitor live strategies, interpret PnL drivers, diagnose performance shifts, and iterate rapidly while maintaining discipline around change control and research integrity.

Qualifications & Skills: ~3+ years of handson experience in a systematic QR or quant research capacity focused on macro or multiasset is a must. ~Track record of discovering midhorizon alpha (intraday/fewday holds) and pushing signals into production. ~Experience with macro instruments, at minimum futures and FX (exposure to IRS and CDX). ~Familiarity with execution and transaction cost modeling in macro markets; understanding of market microstructure at intraday horizons. ~A Statistics foundation is a strog plus; timeseries modeling, hypothesis testing, bootstrap/resampling, model selection, crossvalidation for dependent data, robust regression, and techniques to handle nonstationarity.