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Arrowstreet Capital, Limited Partnership · 2 months ago

Senior Quantitative Researcher

Boston, MA

Full-time

Hybrid

Senior Level

$170K/yr - $325K/yr

7+ years exp

Arrowstreet Capital is a Boston-based systematic investment firm that manages global equity portfolios for institutional investors around the world. They are seeking a Senior Quantitative Researcher to join their collaborative, data-driven team, responsible for generating investment ideas, evaluating data sources, and improving investment models and portfolio construction decisions.

Financial ServicesVenture Capital

Growth Opportunities

H1B Sponsor Likely

Responsibilities

Contribute to idea generation and management of high-impact projects that improve the specification and/or implementation of investment models

Research projects that improve portfolio construction decisions in a fully integrated, unified systematic investment process

Qualification

Systematic investment strategiesQuantitative researchRisk modelingData evaluationStatistical computing PythonStatistical computing RStatistical computing etc.Portfolio constructionStatisticsLeadership experienceAnalytical skillsEmpirical asset pricingCommunication skillsProblem-solving skills

Required

7+ years of experience developing systematic investment strategies, particularly in equity and currency markets and with forecast horizons of days, weeks, or months instead of seconds, minutes, or hours

A creative, rigorous thinker with a demonstrated ability to come up with differentiated alpha research ideas based on investment logic and intuition

Extensive experience performing hands-on quantitative research as an individual contributor

Extensive experience managing other researchers on multiple simultaneous research projects

Significant experience evaluating novel data sources

Expertise in risk and transaction cost modeling

Familiarity with optimization and portfolio construction in a systematic investment process more generally

Significant experience implementing successful research ideas in a production process

Excellent communication skills, including data visualization

Strong analytical, quantitative, and problem-solving skills

Understanding of probability, statistics, linear regression, time-series analysis, linear algebra, calculus, optimization and portfolio theory

Knowledge of the application of statistics to economics (including econometrics or regression analysis)

Experience with a statistical computing environment such as Python, Stata, R, or MATLAB

Good understanding of the academic field of empirical asset pricing

High energy and strong work ethic

An undergraduate degree with an emphasis on challenging quantitative coursework. A graduate degree in a field related to economics, finance, or statistics is a plus

Benefits

Annual discretionary bonuses

Robust benefits package

Company

Arrowstreet Capital, Limited Partnership

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Founded in 1999, Arrowstreet Capital is an independent private partnership based in Boston, Massachusetts.

Founded in 1999

Boston, Massachusetts, USA

201-500 employees

http://arrowstreetcapital.com

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