CareerPlan

Quantitative Researcher - Macro

New York, NYFull-time$150k2026-09-15 → 2026-11-10

Core

Develop systematic trading models for mid-frequency alpha strategies across FX, commodities, fixed income, and equity markets.

Role type

Quantitative Researcher (Systematic Macro)

Builds

Systematic trading strategies and production trading environments

Domain

Financial Markets / Quantitative Trading

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Alpha idea generation, backtesting, portfolio optimization, statistical/technical signal building, cross-sectional and time-series modeling, data exploration, dimension reduction, feature engineering, regression techniques (OLS, Ridge, Lasso, Bayesian), error handling (auto-correlation, heteroskedasticity), Python (numpy, pandas, scikit-learn)

Preferred skills

Risk management, PhD in statistics or machine learning

Technologies

Python, numpy, pandas, scikit-learn

Responsibilities

Develop systematic trading models, generate alpha ideas, backtest strategies, assist in building and maintaining production environments, evaluate new datasets, improve existing strategies, monitor execution

Seniority

Mid-Senior, hands-on IC