Arrowstreet Capital

Senior Quantitative Researcher

Boston · Senior

Sponsorship not specified$170k-$325kDetected 30 days ago

PythonMATLABData VisualizationStatisticsRecruitingSTATAResearchCommunicationProblem Solving

About the role

Arrowstreet Capital is committed to working with and providing reasonable accommodations for qualified individuals with disabilities and disabled veterans.

A creative, rigorous thinker with a demonstrated ability to come up with differentiated alpha research ideas based on investment logic and intuition
Expertise in risk and transaction cost modeling
Familiarity with optimization and portfolio construction in a systematic investment process more generally
Significant experience implementing successful research ideas in a production process
Knowledge of the application of statistics to economics (including econometrics or regression analysis)
Experience with a statistical computing environment such as Python, Stata, R, or MATLAB
7+ years of experience developing systematic investment strategies, particularly in equity and currency markets and with forecast horizons of days, weeks, or months instead of seconds, minutes, or hours
Extensive experience performing hands-on quantitative research as an individual contributor
Extensive experience managing other researchers on multiple simultaneous research projects
Significant experience evaluating novel data sources
Excellent communication skills, including data visualization
Strong analytical, quantitative, and problem-solving skills
Understanding of probability, statistics, linear regression, time-series analysis, linear algebra, calculus, optimization and portfolio theory
Good understanding of the academic field of empirical asset pricing

An undergraduate degree with an emphasis on challenging quantitative coursework.
A graduate degree in a field related to economics, finance, or statistics is a plus

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