Comity
Quantitative Researcher for Risk and Research Engagement
Chicago
Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 43 days ago
PythonRailsMachine LearningStatisticsA/B TestingResearchLeadership
About the role
- This role sits at the intersection of portfolio management, quantitative research, and risk management.
- You will work directly with decision-makers across the organization to deepen our understanding of market structure, portfolio behavior, and risk drivers in U.S. power markets.
- This role is highly collaborative, analytical, and hands-on, with significant opportunity to shape our risk and portfolio analytics capabilities as the platform scales.
Responsibilities
- Partner directly with Portfolio Managers and Risk Managers to support portfolio construction, allocation decisions, and alpha research
- Improve backtesting, experimentation, and simulation infrastructure to drive research outcomes
- Develop quantitative models for risk analysis, scenario analysis, and performance attribution
- Support investment and risk decision-making under uncertainty by combining quantitative analysis and sound judgment
- Collaborate closely with engineering, research, and leadership teams to scale Comity's trading and risk platform
Requirements
- You have experience with performance attribution, portfolio optimization, or systematic trading analytics
- You are comfortable influencing Portfolio Managers, Risk Managers, and senior stakeholders in fast-moving environments
- You have strong intuition for markets, portfolio behavior, and risk under changing market conditions
- You are intellectually rigorous and operationally resilient
Nice to have
- Experience in U.S. wholesale electricity markets, including virtual trading, congestion modeling, nodal pricing, or FTRs
- Advanced degree in a quantitative discipline such as mathematics, statistics, computer science, engineering, physics, or economics
- We have hubs in New York City, Chicago, and San Francisco.
- Our priority is to ensure that all applicants are provided with fair and equal access to employment opportunities.
Benefits
- Our founders (ex-Apple, Bluevine; ex-Affirm, Square, Google) are Stanford alumni with experience in complex systems, machine learning and structured finance.
- Our world-class investors, Maverick Ventures https://www.maverickventures.com/ and Caffeinated Capital https://caffeinatedcapital.com/, are aligned to our policy objectives and platform vision.
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