Verition Fund Management LLC (“Verition”) is a multi-strategy, multi-manager hedge fund founded in 2008. Verition focuses on global investment strategies including Global Credit, Global Convertible, Volatility & Capital Structure Arbitrage, Event-Driven Investing, Equity Long/Short & Capital Markets Trading, and Global Quantitative Trading.
We are looking for talented junior Quantitative Researcher / Quantitative Developers to join one of our newer trading teams. This is a front-office role, you will be involved in the whole investment process with a direct contribution into the team’s bottom line. This is a greenfield project, a unique opportunity to get exposed and contribute to all quantitative aspects of the business: alpha generation, modelling, portfolio construction, research tools, etc. You will be joining at a stage where the platform and infrastructure are still being built. Our team has Developers and Quantitative Researchers working in tight collaboration to setup the whole infrastructure, using Rust and Python.
Responsibilities:
- Contribute to the quantitative side of the platform: alphas, models, portfolio construction, metrics
- Research and development of new signals: including idea generation, data ingestion, research and production
- Build-out of the research infrastructure, and of the production infrastructure
- Build-out of the systematic trading infrastructure
- Oversight of production once trading starts
Qualifications:
- 0-4 years of experience (grad or junior quant researcher/developer)
- Experience with data science, creating features and improving statistical models.
- Strong programming skills, with good knowledge of at least one compiled language
- A pragmatic/engineering attitude, able to get things done and has a passion for learning technologies to do so