Edgestream

Edgestream

Experienced Alpha Research Scientist

Princeton, NJ/New York, NY

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 42 days ago
AlgorithmsMachine LearningStatisticsResearchCollaboration

About the role

  • Edgestream's culture has more in common with research laboratories and technology startups than with traditional finance.
  • We prize curiosity, creativity, diligence, and intellectual honesty.
  • And we incentivize our employees to cooperate and share ideas, because we know that compounding our efforts magnifies our achievements.

Responsibilities

  • Edgestream Partners is a tight-knit team of scientists, engineers, and business professionals who devote our talents to developing quantitative models of financial markets and using them to trade systematically around the world and around the clock.
  • We focus on the long term, working together to build elegant and general systems that endure and scale as we grow.

Requirements

  • PhD in a scientific or engineering discipline (or equivalent experience).
  • Track record of high achievement in scientific research.
  • Comfort with large data and programming.
  • No knowledge of finance is required.
  • In compliance with federal law, all persons hired will be required to verify identity and eligibility to work in the United States and to complete the required employment eligibility verification document form upon hire.
  • Strong analytical and mathematical abilities.
  • Some of the benefits of working at Edgestream:
  • Competitive salary, bonus, and incentive compensation based on overall company performance.
  • Fantastic resources, accumulated over decades, for turning ideas into reality.
  • Comprehensive, first-class benefits (including excellent medical and dental insurance, 401(k), HRA, FSA, life insurance, daily catered lunch, and an onsite gym).
  • For qualified employees, the opportunity to invest in our funds.
  • Contact Info
  • E-mail: careers@edgestreamlp.com.
  • Legal disclaimer: In compliance with federal law, all persons hired will be required to verify identity and eligibility to work in the United States and to complete the required employment eligibility verification document form upon hire.

Compensation

  • Competitive salary, bonus, and incentive compensation based on overall company performance.

Benefits

  • Our ranks include physicists, mathematicians, biologists, machine learning experts, cryptographers, and theoretical computer scientists.

Company info

  • We're looking for talented, curious, and driven people who can grow with us in the years ahead.
  • We are responsible for the creation of the scientific models of market behavior which drive trading in our funds.
  • Our work covers the full spectrum from basic research in statistics, information theory, and algorithms, to investigating new datasets, to building out our research platform, to implementation and analysis of live trading systems.

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