# PhD Graduate Quantitative Researcher

**Company**: Flow Traders
**Location**: New York
**Work arrangement**: onsite
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $175,000 plus annual discretionary variable remuneration
**Category**: Research
**Industry**: Finance

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## Description

Flow Traders is looking for a PhD Graduate Quantitative Researcher to join the quantitative trading team in our New York office.

This is a unique opportunity to join a leading proprietary trading firm, working alongside some of the brightest minds in the industry.

As a firm, we are committed to leveraging advances in computer science, statistics, and machine learning to generate value in the financial markets.

A successful Quantitative Researcher is an expert in mathematics and statistics, passionate about translating challenging quantitative problems into equations and models, and skilled at optimizing them using cutting-edge computational techniques.

If you're at the top of your quantitative, modeling, and coding game, and excited to test these skills in competitive live markets, this opportunity is for you.

**Responsibilities**

- Design, build, optimize, and deploy state-of-the-art models and algorithms for systematic trading.

- Analyze large datasets to identify patterns and signals that can be translated into trading strategies.

- Collaborate with traders and technologists to bring models from research into live production.

- Monitor and refine existing models based on live market performance.

**Requirements**

- A PhD degree in Mathematics, Physics, Computer Science or a related quantitative field.

- Strong statistical and linear algebra knowledge.

- Proficiency in implementing models and algorithms in programming languages such as Python or C++.

- Experience in Deep Learning is a plus.

- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to work independently on open-ended, ambiguous problems.

- Ownership and entrepreneurship.

**Compensation** Per NYC salary transparency law, the total compensation for this role includes a base salary of $175,000 plus annual discretionary variable remuneration.

## Skills

### Required
- Mathematics
- Statistics
- Linear Algebra
- Python
- C++
- Deep Learning

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