Junior Quantitative Researcher - Global Quant Trading firm (Beijing / Shanghai based)

Global Quant trading firm is expanding its research team and thus looking for Fresh Graduates from a STEM background. The role will be based in Shanghai or Beijing. Applicants must have already graduated, preferably within 2024-2026. Attractive salary and benefits will be provided to the right candidate.

Responsibilities

• Work with Portfolio Manager in building signals aimed at predicting movements of worldwide financial markets
• Review and experiment ideas from academic finance literature
• Automate the design framework to generate multiple signals
• Evaluate signals from a large pool of signals and noise

Qualifications

• Masters or PhD degree; Bachelor (Hons) degree candidates will also be considered
• Have experience with scripting language, Python and shell scripting are required
• Programming skills, python is a must
• Machine learning and / or linear algebra course work is a plus
• Participated in data mining and or programming competitions (preferred)