Quantitative Researcher

[…] Americas, Inc. has multiple openings for Quantitative Researcher (REQ ID: [phone]) in Chicago, IL and New York, NY. Your Core

Collaborate with traders, developers, and researchers to evaluate, validate, and improve quantitative models used in […]’s proprietary trading strategies through statistical analysis, simulation, and empirical research (10%). Design quantitative methods to gather and analyze market data, trading statistics, or new data sources and use the result of that research as the basis for new trading strategies (10%). Build research-oriented computational tools, simulations, visualizations, and backtesting frameworks to evaluate quantitative hypotheses and measure model performance before production deployment (10%).

Formulate trading hypotheses as mathematical, statistical, and machine-learning models; prototype algorithms and coordinate with developers to integrate validated research into trading systems (10%). Apply statistical inference, optimization, numerical methods, and financial mathematics to diagnose model behavior, improve forecasting accuracy, and address complex research problems in proprietary trading (15%). Identify gaps in existing trading algorithms and propose new algorithmic approaches to improve pricing, execution, risk management, or trading performance (10%).

Define design requirements for new quantitative trading algorithms, including the intended market behavior, data inputs, model assumptions, implementation cons