Fixed Income Quantitative Researcher (Trading)

Location: London, United Kingdom

Company

hirify.global is a quantitative trading firm that applies mathematics, statistics, and computer science research to global financial markets.

What you will do

• Develop and refine quantitative models for predicting and trading fixed income products, including medium- to long-frequency alpha signals.
• Manage portfolio risk and ensure accurate risk assessment for real-time decision-making.
• Analyze market data and relationships between market events and product price movements to identify opportunities and optimize strategies.
• Build, train, validate, and monitor predictive models using large-scale, noisy financial time series.
• Collaborate with futures, equity, and options researchers, traders, and technologists to share signals, data, and infrastructure.

Requirements

• Experience with fixed income concepts, including bond and interest rate swap pricing, yield curve analysis, and algorithm optimization.
• Experience researching predictive signals over multi-hour to multi-week horizons, including signal construction, backtesting, turnover, and capacity analysis.
• Deep expertise in modern deep learning, Bayesian time series, or high-dimensional statistics, with an understanding of overfitting in low signal-to-noise environments.
• Experience working with large datasets and strong problem-solving, mathematics, and statistics skills.
• Solid Python and software development skills; good C++ skills are a plus.
• Master’s or PhD in mathematics, statistics, operations research, physics, computer science, financial engineering, or a related field.

Culture & Benefits

• Collaborative, team-driven research environment spanning fixed income, futures, equity, and options.
• Private medical, vision, and dental insurance.
• Travel medical insurance and group pension scheme.
• Group life assurance, income protection, and paid parental leave.
• Parking and commuter benefits.