Entry Level Quantitative Researcher

Location: New York, New York, United States

Annual base pay: $175,000–$225,000, prorated based on internship start and end date.

Company

hirify.global is a global multi-strategy, multi-manager investment platform specializing in quantitative trading, fundamental equity, tactical trading, and discretionary macro and fixed income strategies.

What you will do

• Design novel predictive signals and enhance algorithms for prediction, trade execution, portfolio construction, and risk management.
• Collaborate with quantitative researchers and developers on projects across the technology stack.
• Build infrastructure, collect and validate data, conduct machine learning studies, and manage production systems.
• Work with in-house and open-source libraries and contribute to the growth and diversification of the quantitative trading business.
• Investigate missing data, outliers, statistical errors, convergence failures, software bugs, and other edge cases.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s, Master’s, or PhD degree in a quantitative or technical field such as statistics, mathematics, physics, electrical engineering, or computer science.
• Recent graduate or final-year student preferred.
• Ability to work on projects using C++, JavaScript, Python, Rust, and Go.
• Willingness to work at any level of the stack and take projects through to completion.
• Strong intuition for maximizing expected value under imperfect information, risk, and adversarial conditions.
• Careful, detail-oriented approach to data quality, statistical analysis, software correctness, and production reliability.

Culture & Benefits

• Immediate access to data and code with opportunities to contribute from the first day.
• Mentorship and collaboration with experienced researchers.
• Clear ownership, visibility, and exposure to multiple facets of quantitative trading.
• Culture centered on ambition, creativity, rigor, hard work, and continuous learning.
• No previous financial experience is required.