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Quant Researcher

New York💼 Full-time💰 $120,000–$120,000🗓 2026-09-11 → 2026-09-26

Core

Develop and improve quantitative investment strategies in equity markets, managing the full research lifecycle from idea generation and data sourcing to signal construction, testing, portfolio construction, and trade execution.

Role type

Quantitative Researcher (Equity Markets)

Builds

Predictive models, trading cost models, risk models, and optimized portfolios for systematic investment strategies.

Domain

Alternative Investment Management / Quantitative Finance / Equity Markets

Deliverable

production ML models | product features

Required skills

Econometrics, Statistics, Python, Data Sourcing, Signal Construction, Portfolio Optimization, Risk Modeling, Statistical Analysis, Research Design

Preferred skills

Machine Learning, LLMs/AI techniques, Live Trading experience, Fixed Income/Macro research collaboration

Technologies

Python

Responsibilities

Identify new investment ideas or innovative data sources; Source, gather, and refine complex data for modeling; Code and perform statistical/ML analysis to build, test, and refine predictive models; Interpret, present, and implement research results; Conduct research on implementation aspects like trading cost models, risk models, and portfolio construction; Collaborate with adjacent research teams to share techniques and insights.

Seniority

Mid-level, hands-on IC

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