Quantitative Strategies Group LLC ยท 4 hours ago
Machine Learning Quant Trader
NYC Metro Area
Full-time
Hybrid
New Grad, Entry LevelQuantitative Strategies Group (QSG) is a proprietary trading firm focused on building systematic trading businesses. They are seeking a Machine Learning Quant Trader to operate independently, leveraging firm resources to develop and implement trading strategies using statistical and machine learning models.
Financial Services
Responsibilities
Build a long-term trading business inside a proprietary trading firm
Operate independently while leveraging firm capital, technology, market access, risk management, and internal tooling
Own research, strategy development, and implementation end to end
Drive research and decision-making primarily by statistical and machine learning models
Programming as a primary research language
Manage risk limits and capital scale based on performance, discipline, and risk management
Build and test predictive models using Python or similar languages
Design features from noisy, real-world data
Work with time series data and understand data leakage
Run systematic backtests and evaluate failure modes and drawdowns
Iterate quickly and discard ideas that fail empirical validation
Qualification
Required
Strong quantitative, technical, or machine learning foundations
Experience building and testing predictive models using Python or similar languages
Experience designing features from noisy, real-world data
Experience working with time series data and understanding data leakage
Experience running systematic backtests and evaluating failure modes and drawdowns
Ability to iterate quickly and discard ideas that fail empirical validation
Comfort owning models end to end, from hypothesis formation through evaluation and failure analysis
Willingness to defer intuition to data and discard ideas that fail empirical validation
Hands-on quantitative or machine learning work
Company
Quantitative Strategies Group LLC
Quantitative Strategies Group (QSG) is a proprietary trading firm focused on systematic and algorithmic strategies in U.S. equities.
Founded in 2019
11-50 employees
Funding
Current Stage
Early StageCompany data provided by crunchbase