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Lead Alpha Researcher, Systematic Equities

London💼 Full-time🗓 2026-09-15 → 2026-09-26

Core

Lead a European alpha research team to develop, validate, and deploy systematic equities trading strategies and predictive models to improve production trading performance.

Role type

Senior hands-on IC lead researcher (systematic equities)

Builds

Production trading strategies, alpha signals, and predictive models for global equities markets

Domain

Systematic trading, quantitative finance, machine learning

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Machine learning, statistics, experimental design, Python programming, model validation, research methodology, team leadership, strategy development

Preferred skills

PhD in quantitative discipline, experience managing high-performance research teams, track record of profitable orthogonal signals

Technologies

Python

Responsibilities

Lead research, development, and deployment of alpha signals and predictive models; Manage and develop the European alpha research team; Define and prioritize the alpha research agenda; Deliver measurable improvements in production trading performance; Establish best practices for research methodology and validation; Drive development of scalable research tools and datasets

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC with leadership responsibilities

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