Senior/Lead Quant (top tier fund)
Core
Generate original, high-conviction alpha signals across liquid global markets and turn them into production-ready alpha with measurable PnL impact.
Role type
Senior IC systematic alpha researcher
Builds
Production-ready alpha signals integrated into portfolio
Domain
Systematic trading / Quantitative finance
Deliverable
production ML models
Required skills
Statistical learning, time-series modeling, overfitting detection, cross-validation, experimental design, portfolio construction, signal interaction effects, Python, feature engineering, robustness analysis
Preferred skills
None stated
Technologies
Python
Responsibilities
Design rigorous research frameworks with out-of-sample validation and leakage control, stress-test ideas across regimes and liquidity conditions, work directly with decision-makers to allocate risk, improve research tooling and diagnostics
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC