Independent Quantitative Analyst
Remote · London, England, United Kingdom
London, England, United KingdomRemoteFull TimeMid LevelNot SpecifiedUnknown
Type
Full Time
Level
Mid Level
Education
Not Specified
Company size
Unknown
Job Summary
Independent Quantitative Analyst for Smartkarma's cloud-based platform. Responsible for developing systematic strategies across equities, derivatives, and multi-asset spaces; performing signal research, feature engineering, and backtesting; building and maintaining proprietary datasets and models; producing actionable ideas and research insights for institutional clients; and delivering high-touch client service with clear, defendable publications.
Required Qualifications
- 8+ years of extensive institutional research, trading, or investment experience
- Expertise in systematic strategies across equities, equity derivatives, and multi-asset instruments (index and single-name listed and OTC options, futures)
- Strong signal research, feature engineering, and robust backtesting across horizons
- Ability to combine market intuition with statistical learning to build differentiated proprietary datasets and models
- Ability to write and defend research views clearly in published insights and client discussions
- Deliverables include actionable trade ideas, factor/risk premia/alpha research, event-driven frameworks, cross-asset analysis, and playbooks
- High-touch servicing for select institutional clients
- Strong writing and communication skills for professional investors
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