# Quantitative Researcher, Quantitative Strategies

**Company**: Quant Strategies
**Location**: New York, New York, United States of America
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: mid
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $150,000 to $200,000
**Category**: Finance
**Industry**: Finance

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## Description

We are seeking a Quantitative Researcher to join a small, collaborative team focused on systematic equity strategies. This role offers the opportunity to contribute across the full research lifecycle, including idea generation, data sourcing, signal development, model implementation, backtesting, and live strategy refinement, with forecasting horizons spanning intraday to several weeks.

Principal Responsibilities: Partner closely with the SPM and team on alpha research for systematic equity strategies Generate and test new ideas using financial intuition, statistical learning, and large, diverse datasets Integrate Agentic AI workflows where they can improve productivity, model development, or operational robustness Source, clean, and analyze alternative, fundamental, and market microstructure data Build predictive models and contribute to signal combination, portfolio implementation, and ongoing model refinement Work in a transparent, collaborative environment with exposure to the broader investment process

Preferred Technical Skills: Bachelor’s, Master’s, or PhD in a quantitative field such as Mathematics, Statistics, Computer Science, Physics, or a related STEM discipline Strong Python skills; experience building research tools or production-quality research infrastructure is highly desirable Experience developing systematic equity or statistical arbitrage alphas, including intraday rebalancing of multi-day horizon signals Experience working with alternative, fundamental, and exchange / market microstructure data Practical experience applying LLMs or modern ML techniques to research workflows, signal generation, or dataset creation is highly desirable

Preferred Experience: Minimum 3 years of experience in quantitative research focused on systematic equities Strong preference for candidates from quantitative trading teams, though we are open to strong quantitative candidates from discretionary environments

Target Start Date: ASAP, though we will wait up to 12 months for an exceptional candidate

## Skills

### Required
- Python
- Research tools
- Production-quality research infrastructure
- Systematic equity or statistical arbitrage alphas
- Alternative, fundamental, and exchange / market microstructure data
- LLMs or modern ML techniques

### Nice to have
- Agentic AI workflows
- Signal combination, portfolio implementation, and ongoing model refinement
- Data analysis
- Predictive modeling

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