Quantitative Researcher - Systematic Macro (Finance)

Location: New York, New York, United States

Salary: $180,000–$225,000 per year base salary; 40 hours per week

Company

hirify.global is an investment management firm developing systematic, quantitative trading strategies.

What you will do

• Develop econometric, statistical, and simulation models to analyze and forecast financial-security price movements and macroeconomic, policy, and political conditions.
• Formulate and implement mathematical models of investment strategies for computerized trading algorithms.
• Research statistical effects, assess their robustness, and develop quantitative strategies across equities and other asset classes.
• Build Python applications to automate daily data-dependency processing for trading strategies.
• Validate and test trading simulations and critical trading applications.
• Manage live-trading automations and continuously monitor related risk.

Requirements

• Master’s degree or foreign equivalent in a STEM field or Economics.
• At least two years of experience as a Quantitative Researcher, Investment Process Associate, or in a related role at an investment or asset management organization.
• At least two years of experience analyzing macroeconomic data and relationships and their impact on asset prices.
• At least two years of experience programming in Python and performing statistical analysis, including hypothesis testing, time-series analysis, and linear regression.
• Knowledge of worldwide macroeconomic release details and methods and datasets used by the Bureau of Labor Statistics to create macroeconomic indices.
• Experience building models to predict macroeconomic variables.

Culture & Benefits

• Full-time schedule of 40 hours per week.
• Compensation includes base salary only; additional compensation or benefits may be available.