Description
Responsibilities:- Propose trading strategies and algorithm enhancements.
- Define and implement data collection and data acquisition methods.
- Perform statistical analyses to verify and optimize innovations and enhancements to trading models.
- Write functional requirements documentation for use by software developers.
- Collaborate closely with software developers in specification process and participate in software testing to ensure successful implementation of functional requirements.
- Monitor trading performance and devise improvements.
Qualifications:
- Graduate degree in statistics, math, science, or another quantitative discipline; PhD preferred.
- Highly proficient in statistics.
- Experience developing financial models.
- Experience with high-frequency and/or automated trading is a plus.
- Ideal candidate will have at least 3-5 years of financial markets experience.
- Experience with C++, Perl and SQL; familiar with Linux or UNIX.
- Highly motivated self-starter.
- Flexible, able to multi-task and work under pressure.
- Highly detailed and well-organized.
If you are looking to get highly compensated for your work as a financial engineer and join a firm where you can further advance your career, this is the perfect firm for you. Please contact Richard Sponder at Huxley Associates at with questions.
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