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ROLE/RESPONSIBILITIES:
The Cubist Business Management team manages all aspects of onboarding new systematic equity trading teams and systematic macro trading teams as well as deployments of new trading strategies. The team also represents PMs with external counterparties and is responsible for rate negotiations, quant research vendor relationship management, and trading relationship management. General responsibilities include, but are not limited to, assisting veteran Cubist Business Management team members along the following lines:
- Complete project lifecycle management launching new PM Teams into production
- Design PM research and trading solutions that adhere to firm standards
- Educate PM teams on Point72 operating procedures and technology integration
- Lead new strategy rollout projects internally with Technology, Operations, Legal, Compliance, and Risk groups, and externally with brokers, exchanges, and vendors
- Provide day-to-day support for various operational procedures such as broker data management, compliance monitoring, trading, and business continuity
The person in this role must have a technical background as well as good communication skills and a willingness to learn day-to-day trading and finance operations. The candidate should have a good understanding of global market structure and electronic trading systems and have familiarity with trading rules and regulations or demonstrate an aptitude to learn. Familiarity with research and market data sources is a strong plus but not a requirement.
REQUIREMENTS:
- This is a highly selective position. The ideal candidates will have a combination of software development and communication skills with some experience working in a financial services organization.
- A BS in finance, statistics, math, and engineering or computer science is strongly preferred. 2 years of relevant work experience is a plus.
- Must have the ability to assist veteran specialists while simultaneously managing multiple long-term and short-term projects independently under very tight project deadlines.
- Must have strong interpersonal skills, excellent time management skills and a team attitude.
- Ability to clearly document technical specifications and articulate concepts in a less-technical fashion.
- Working experience in Python and SQL. Linux/Unix scripting (Perl, bash, etc.) a plus.
- Additional experience with database design is a plus.
- We support systematic trading in liquid instruments (global equities, futures, and foreign exchange) as well as systematic trading in macro instruments (e.g., bonds, rates, and credit). Candidates with specific work experience and knowledge of market regulations in these areas will be strongly preferred but not required.
- Working experience with digital currency exchanges, liquidity providers, derivative financial products, and business operations a plus.
- Commitment to the highest ethical standards.
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Role/Responsibilities:
The Cubist Business Management team manages all aspects of onboarding new systematic equity trading teams and systematic macro trading teams as well as deployments of new trading strategies. The team also represents PMs with external counterparties and is responsible for rate negotiations, quant research vendor relationship management and trading relationship management. General responsibilities include, but are not limited to, assisting veteran Cubist Business Management team members along the following lines:
- Complete project lifecycle management launching new PM Teams into production
- Design PM research and trading solutions that adhere to firm standards
- Educate PM teams on Point72 operating procedures and technology integration
- Lead new strategy rollout projects internally with Technology, Operations, Legal, Compliance, and Risk groups, and externally with brokers, exchanges, and vendors
- Provide day-to-day support for various operational procedures such as broker data management, compliance monitoring, trading, and business continuity
The person in this role must have a technical background as well as good communication skills and a willingness to learn day-to-day trading and finance operations. The candidate should have a good understanding of global market structure and electronic trading systems and have familiarity with trading rules and regulations or demonstrate an aptitude to learn. Familiarity with research and market data sources is a strong plus but not a requirement.
Job Requirements:
- This is a selective position. The ideal candidates will have a combination of software development and communication skills with some experience working in a financial services organization.
- A BS in finance, statistics, math, and engineering or computer science is strongly preferred. 2 years of relevant work experience is a plus.
- Must have the ability to assist veteran specialists while simultaneously managing multiple long-term and short-term projects independently under very tight project deadlines.
- Must have strong inter-personal skills, excellent time management skills and a team attitude
- Ability to clearly document technical specifications and articulate concepts in a less-technical fashion.
- Working experience in Python and SQL. Linux/Unix scripting (Perl, bash, etc.) a plus.
- Additional experience with database design is a plus.
- We support systematic trading in liquid instruments (global equities, futures, and foreign exchange) as well as systematic trading in macro instruments (e.g. bonds, rates, and credit). Candidates with specific work experience and knowledge of market regulations in these areas will be strongly preferred but not required.
- Working experience with digital currency exchanges, liquidity providers, derivative financial products, and business operations a plus.
- Commitment to the highest ethical standards.
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Role/Responsibilities:
The Cubist Business Management team manages all aspects of onboarding new systematic equity trading teams and systematic macro trading teams as well as deployments of new trading strategies. The team also represents PMs with external counterparties and is responsible for rate negotiations, quant research vendor relationship management, and trading relationship management. General responsibilities include, but are not limited to:
- Complete project lifecycle management launching new PM Teams into production
- Design PM research and trading solutions that adhere to firm standards
- Educate PM teams on Point72 operating procedures and technology integration
- Lead new strategy rollout projects internally with Technology, Operations, Legal, Compliance, and Risk groups, and externally with brokers, exchanges, and vendors
- Provide day-to-day support for various operational procedures such as broker data management, compliance monitoring, trading, and business continuity
The person in this role must have a strong technical background as well strong project management skills and experience with day-to-day trading operations. He/she should have a good understanding of global market structure and electronic trading systems and have familiarity with trading rules and regulations. In addition to strong technical skills, the candidate must have excellent communication/interpersonal skills and the ability to work as a team member or independently and to work with external and internal counter parties. Familiarity with research and market data sources is a strong plus.
Job Requirements:
- This is a highly selective position. The ideal candidates will have a combination of software development and communication skills with some experience working in a financial services organization.
- A BS or MS in finance, statistics, math, and engineering or computer science is strongly desired along with preferably 5 years of relevant work experience.
- Must have the ability to independently manage multiple long-term and short-term projects under very tight project deadlines.
- Must have strong interpersonal skills, excellent time management skills and a team attitude
- Strong written and oral communication skills
- Working experience in Python and SQL.
- Familiarity with industry standards of server and storage hardware preferred.
- Additional experience with database design is a plus.
- We support systematic trading in liquid instruments (global equities, futures, and foreign exchange) as well as systematic trading in macro instruments (e.g., bonds, rates, and credit). Candidates with specific work experience in these areas will be strongly preferred.
- Working experience with digital currency exchanges, liquidity providers, derivative financial products, and business operations a plus.
- Commitment to the highest ethical standards
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Role/Responsibilities:
The Cubist Business Management team manages all aspects of onboarding new systematic trading teams as well as deployment of new trading strategies. The team also represents PMs with external counterparties and is responsible for rate negotiations, quant research vendor relationship management, and trading relationship management. General responsibilities include, but are not limited to:
- Complete project lifecycle management launching new PM Teams into production
- Educate PM teams on Point72 operating procedures and technology integration
- Lead new strategy rollout projects internally with Technology, Operations, Legal, Compliance, and Risk groups, and externally with brokers, exchanges, and vendors
- Provide day-to-day support for various operational procedures such as broker data management, compliance monitoring, trading, and business continuity
The person in this role must have a technical background as well as good communication skills and a willingness to learn day-to-day trading and finance operations. The candidate should have a good understanding of global market structure and electronic trading systems and have familiarity with trading rules and regulations or demonstrate an aptitude to learn. Familiarity with research and market data sources is a strong plus but not a requirement.
Job Requirements:
- This is a highly selective position. The ideal candidates will have a combination of software development and communication skills with some experience working in a financial services organization.
- A BS in finance, statistics, math, and engineering or computer science is strongly preferred. 2 years of relevant work experience is a plus.
- Must have strong interpersonal skills, excellent time management skills, and a team attitude.
- Working experience in Python and SQL.
- We support systematic trading of global equities, futures, and foreign exchange, bonds, rates, credit and options. Candidates with specific work experience and knowledge of market regulations in these areas will be strongly preferred but not required.
- Commitment to the highest ethical standards
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ABOUT POINT72
Point72 is a leading global alternative investment firm led by Steven A. Cohen. Building on more than 30 years of investing experience, Point72 seeks to deliver superior returns for its investors through fundamental and systematic investing strategies across asset classes and geographies. We aim to attract and retain the industry’s brightest talent by cultivating an investor-led culture and committing to our people’s long-term growth.
JOB RESPONSIBILITIES
The internal alpha capture (IAC) team is focused on developing and implementing scalable long/short equity investment strategies that leverage insights from discretionary portfolio managers and analysts, using sophisticated risk management, portfolio construction and execution techniques.
This is an opportunity for students and researchers in quantitative finance, behavioral finance, and statistics to apply these techniques to solve niche practical investment challenges specific to a platform of equity portfolio managers. Specific responsibilities will include:
- End-to-end quantitative research project management including data exploration, cleaning and management, research hypothesis testing based on economic rationale, statistical/regression modeling, realistic simulation analysis, and presentation of results to the broader group.
DESIRABLE CANDIDATES
- Undergraduate, Masters, or PhD candidates or higher in finance, computer science, mathematics, or other quantitative discipline
- Strong analytical and quantitative skills, particularly related to quantitative equity investing
- Sound economic intuition when it comes to validating investment hypotheses
- Solid regression modeling foundations (linear, ridge, logit, etc.)
- Familiarity with fundamental data (estimates, actuals) and databases (compustat, ibes)
- Familiarity with commercial factor models (Barra, Axioma, etc.)
- Strong python skills, particularly in data manipulation and regression modeling
- Familiarity with SQL and version control (GIT)
- Commitment to the highest ethical standards
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Please send CVs to kepl-talent@cubistsystematic.com with “2027 KEPL Application” in the subject line.
About Cubist:
Cubist Systematic Strategies, an affiliate of Point72, deploys systematic, computer-driven trading strategies across multiple liquid asset classes, including equities, futures and foreign exchange. The core of our effort is rigorous research into a wide range of market anomalies, fueled by our unparalleled access to a wide range of publicly available data sources.
About Our Team:
KEPL is a fast-growing team at Cubist Systematic Strategies. We specialize in trading medium-frequency statistical arbitrage strategies with high Sharpe. The team is made up of people from top universities and top tier trading and tech firms. We have an open and collaborative culture, and we value rigorous research and innovative technologies. We are actively expanding into new markets and assets classes.
Role:
We are looking for full-time quantitative research analysts and software developers to join our fast-growing team and contribute to multiple new initiatives that aim to expand our business. The candidate should have a passion for innovation to solve research and trading problems. In this team, the candidate will gain full-stack exposure and build expertise in multiple aspects of quantitative research and trading. The candidate will play an essential role for the team’s successful expansion. The candidate will also collaborate with other team members to innovate our research infrastructure which will take our research and trading capability to the next level.
Responsibilities:
- Conduct quantitative research to support the team’s investment process.
- Build technologies that bolster research & trading productivity.
- Develop, maintain, and improve the production trading capacity.
- Expand the system to new markets and asset classes.
Requirements:
- Master or PhD degree in math, physics, computer science, engineering, or other related discipline.
- 1-3 years of professional experience in software development or quantitative research.
- Strong combination of quantitative skills and programming skills.
- Proficiency in Python 3 and either C++ or Java.
- Familiarity with the Linux environment.
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Please send CVs to KEPL-talent@cubistsystematic.com with “2027 QD Summer Internship Application” in the subject line. When your application is received, we will consider you for all similar positions at Cubist.
About Cubist:
Cubist Systematic Strategies, an affiliate of Point72, deploys systematic, computer-driven trading strategies across multiple liquid asset classes, including equities, futures and foreign exchange. The core of our effort is rigorous research into a wide range of market anomalies, fueled by our unparalleled access to a wide range of publicly available data sources.
About Our Team:
KEPL is a fast-growing team at Cubist Systematic Strategies. We specialize in trading medium-frequency statistical arbitrage strategies with high Sharpe. The team is made up of people from top universities and top tier trading and tech firms. We have an open and collaborative culture, and we value rigorous research and innovative technologies.
Role / Experience:
We are looking for exceptional students to be our quantitative developer interns for the summer of 2027. An ideal candidate should have a strong passion and initiative to work in a start-up environment. He/she should have strong analytical and programming skills and be able to solve hard problems rigorously. Our typical intern candidates come from math, computer science, or other related programs of top US universities.
Our internship program offers unique KEPL experience. During the internship, our interns will receive rigorous and comprehensive trainings. They will further learn and develop strong analytical skills through working with our full-time researchers and developers on challenging real-world problems. We will consider full-time offers for interns after the internship.
Requirements:
- Undergraduate degree or higher in math, computer science, or other quantitative fields
- Strong analytical skills, with attention to details
- Strong passion in applying new technologies to trading
- Proficiency in Python and either C++ or Java
- Good communication skills
- Proficiency with Linux environment
- Knowledge of numerical computing is a plus
- Commitment to the highest ethical standards
The annual base salary is $240,000-$300,000 (USD) which will be prorated based on internship start and end date. Actual compensation offered to the successful candidate may vary from posted hiring range based upon geographic location, work experience, education, and/or skill level, among other things.
- Undergraduate degree or higher in math, computer science, or other quantitative fields
- Strong analytical skills, with attention to details
- Strong passion in applying new technologies to trading
- Proficiency in Python and either C++ or Java
- Proficiency with Linux environment
- Knowledge of numerical computing is a plus
- Commitment to the highest ethical standards
The annual base salary is $240,000-$300,000 (USD) which will be prorated based on internship start and end date. Actual compensation offered to the successful candidate may vary from posted hiring range based upon geographic location, work experience, education, and/or skill level, among other things.
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Please send CVs to KEPL-talent@cubistsystematic.com with “2027 QR Summer Internship Application” in the subject line. When your application is received, we will consider you for all similar positions at Cubist.
About Our Firm:
Cubist Systematic Strategies, an affiliate of Point72, deploys systematic, computer-driven trading strategies across multiple liquid asset classes, including equities, futures and foreign exchange. The core of our effort is rigorous research into a wide range of market anomalies, fueled by our unparalleled access to a wide range of publicly available data sources.
About Our Team:
KEPL is a fast-growing team at Cubist Systematic Strategies. We specialize in trading medium-frequency statistical arbitrage strategies with high Sharpe. The team is made up of people from top universities and top tier trading and tech firms. We have an open and collaborative culture, and we value rigorous research and innovative technologies.
Role / Experience:
We are looking for exceptional students to be our quantitative researcher interns for the summer of 2027. An ideal candidate should have a strong passion and initiative to work in a start-up environment. He/she should have strong analytical skills and be able to solve hard problems rigorously. Our typical intern candidates come from quantitative PhD programs of top US universities.
Our internship program offers unique KEPL experience. During the internship, our interns will receive rigorous and comprehensive trainings. They will develop strong research skills through working closely with our full-time researchers on brand new quant trading models with real-world impact. We will consider full-time offers for interns after the internship.
Requirements:
- PhD candidate in math/physics/statistics/EE/CS, or other quantitative fields
- Strong knowledge of computational math, probability, and statistics
- Strong analytical skills, with attention to details
- Good communication skills
- Willing to work in a fast-paced start-up environment
- Willing to learn and to take ownership
- Strong programming skills in Python or C/C++
- Commitment to the highest ethical standards
The annual base salary is $240,000-$300,000 (USD) which will be prorated based on internship start and end date. Actual compensation offered to the successful candidate may vary from posted hiring range based upon geographic location, work experience, education, and/or skill level, among other things.
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ABOUT CUBIST
Cubist Systematic Strategies, an affiliate of Point72, deploys systematic, computer-driven trading strategies across multiple liquid asset classes, including equities, futures and foreign exchange. The core of our effort is rigorous research into a wide range of market anomalies, fueled by our unparalleled access to a wide range of publicly available data sources.
ROLE
Our research center in Singapore is seeking an experienced researcher with a strong background in alpha research. In this highly selective role you will have access to abundant research resources and exciting opportunities to discover high quality alpha signals that directly drive our investment decisions.
RESPONSIBILITIES
- Conduct original quantitative alpha signal research
- Manage all aspects of the research process, including data analysis, alpha signal discovery, backtesting, trading idea generation, alpha signal/portfolio analysis and the management of production code
- Evaluate new datasets for alpha potential
- Follow, digest, analyze and improve upon the latest academic research
DESIRABLE CANDIDATES
- 2+ years of research experience in Equities.
- Ph.D. or M.S. in finance, accounting, economics, mathematics, statistics, physics, computer science, operations research, or another quantitative discipline.
- Programming in any of the following: R, Python, or C++.
- Experience with SQL.
- Demonstrated ability to learn and apply new methodologies to alpha generation.
- Ability to work both independently and collaboratively within a team.
- Strong desire to deliver high quality results in a timely fashion.
- Detail-oriented.
- Willingness to take ownership of his/her work.
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About Cubist
Cubist Systematic Strategies, an affiliate of Point72, deploys systematic, computer-driven trading strategies across multiple liquid asset classes, including equities, futures and foreign exchange. The core of our effort is rigorous research into a wide range of market anomalies, fueled by our unparalleled access to a wide range of publicly available data sources.
Role/Responsibilities:
We are seeking a Machine Learning Engineer to join the High Frequency Trading Technology team.
This role will apply the latest AI technologies to solve various real-world problems and streamline day-to-day operations, such as creating a production support AI agent that helps monitor production problems and suggest actions.
This role will also work with the AI research group on various projects such as creating synthetic data for training and using MCP agents to streamline research workflow.
Requirements:
- PhD or PhD candidate in machine learning, computer science or other AI related research fields
- Experience with sequential modeling and time series forecasting using deep learning
- Experience with deep neural networks and representation learning
- Prior experience working in a data driven research environment
- Experience with translating mathematical models and algorithms into code
- Proficiency in programming languages such as Python and R
- Experience with machine learning software libraries such as TensorFlow or PyTorch
- Experience implementing Agent or Context engineering is strongly preferred
- Experience with natural language processing technology is strongly preferred
- Excellent analytical skills, with strong attention to detail
- Collaborative mindset with strong independent research ability
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Commitment to the highest ethical standards
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Role:
Point72 is looking for a Quantitative Researcher to join its Fund Flow Research team. The Fund Flow Group provides best in class flow and positioning indicators to help PMs, analysts, and traders across all investment functions understand their investment backdrop, better assess reward and risk, and identify alpha opportunities.
Responsibilities:
- Create systematic trading strategies for macro and equity markets using proprietary flow and positioning datasets
- Conduct rigorous applied research to develop systematic signals for macro and equity markets, with a focus on investor flows and positioning
- Contribute to all aspects of the research and production process, including idea generation, hypothesis testing, portfolio construction, risk and transaction cost models, and P&L attribution
- Monitor, analyze and improve live trading P&L
- Collaborate with analysts and strategists to improve PM-facing content
Requirements:
- Undergraduate, Master’s or PhD candidates in a technical field
- Demonstrated creativity and rigor in the research process
- Technically comfortable handling large datasets stored in AWS using Python
- Collaborative mindset
- Passion for research and financial markets
- Intellectual curiosity, exceptional attention to detail, and the ability to manage multiple projects and deadlines in a fast-paced environment
- Commitment to the highest ethical standards
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ABOUT CUBIST:
Cubist Systematic Strategies, an affiliate of Point72, deploys systematic, computer-driven trading strategies across multiple liquid asset classes, including equities, futures and foreign exchange. The core of our effort is rigorous research into a wide range of market anomalies, fueled by our unparalleled access to a wide range of publicly available data sources.
RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Building components for both live trading and simulation
- Refining and increasing automation and robustness of the research infrastructure including alpha estimation, risk modeling, and backtesting components
- Building tools for signal blending, simulation, portfolio construction, the research framework, and dashboards
- Maintaining and updating the platform, ensuring its stability, robustness, and security
- Developing robust data checking and storage procedures
- Troubleshooting and resolving any systems related issues and handle the release of code fixes and enhancements
REQUIREMENTS:
- Bachelor’s degree or higher in computer science or other STEM discipline
- Advanced proficiency in Python and its ecosystem (numpy, pandas, polars, scikit-learn), with an understanding of Python and library internals
- Experience contributing to core Python numerical libraries is a huge plus (numpy, tensorflow, torch, jax)
- Proficiency with Linux
- Hands-on experience with software architecture and engineering best practices (testing, CI/CD, monitoring, profiling, version control)
- Strong quantitative and analytical skills; command of linear algebra, statistics, and machine learning would be helpful
- Proficiency with C/C++ is a plus
- Experience with designing and implementing trading systems is a plus
- Commitment to the highest ethical standards
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About Cubist:
Cubist Systematic Strategies, an affiliate of Point72, deploys systematic, computer-driven trading strategies across multiple liquid asset classes, including equities, futures and foreign exchange. The core of our effort is rigorous research into a wide range of market anomalies, fueled by our unparalleled access to a wide range of publicly available data sources.
Role:
Cubist is looking for a support engineer/quantitative developer who will work on a growing L2/L3 support team for quantitative trading systems, high‑frequency trading infrastructure, real time analytics, and research infrastructure. This role will require close collaboration with multiple teams at Cubist, including multiple Portfolio Manager (PM) teams, Central Research Technology, and Execution Services. The role offers career growth through the opportunity to work on the development of the underlying systems.
Role/Responsibilities:
- Troubleshooting/resolution of quantitative trading systems and other live analytics processes
- System monitoring, including development of better processes and tools
- New feature development in Python/C++
- Configuration and change management
- Onboarding assistance
Requirements:
- 2+ years of professional support and/or software engineering experience
- Experience with trading systems support (co-located low-latency systems a strong plus)
- Fluency with C++, Python and SQL
- Familiarity with software delivery lifecycle and production deployment
- Cloud experience is a strong plus
- Team player and strong communicator
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A Career with Point72’s Infrastructure Group
As Point72 reimagines the future of investing, our Technology group is constantly improving our company’s IT infrastructure, positioning us at the forefront of a rapidly evolving technology landscape. We’re a team of experts experimenting, discovering new ways to harness the power of open-source solutions, and embracing enterprise agile methodology. We encourage professional development to ensure you bring innovative ideas to our products while satisfying your own intellectual curiosity.
Our Technology Infrastructure team engineers and operates the foundational technology platforms that power all Point72’s applications and businesses. Our disciplines span a broad array of technologies from datacenter infrastructure to large scale cloud services, with the shared goal of providing the most reliable, performant, modern technology platforms to improve time-to-market for our business. We also deliver end-user technology solutions to support the evolving collaboration, and productivity needs of our global teams. Our team focuses on innovation and challenging the current state of our infrastructure technology in a fast-paced, dynamic, and collaborative working environment.
We are looking for a detail-oriented and dedicated Market Data Support Engineer with at least 10 years of experience in the design, implementation, and support of Linux/Unix operating systems.
What you’ll do
In this role, you will work as part of a team responsible for the design, engineering, implementation, and 3rd level support of the Linux and Market Data systems. Specifically, you will:
- Manage, communicate, and implement infrastructure changes, upgrades, and migrations on Linux co-located servers
- Support, monitor, and maintain co-location market data infrastructure running on RHEL
- Engage with vendors and exchanges on protocol upgrades (EDC) and operational issues
- Analyze packet captures (gaps, data quality checks)
- Liaise with Market Data capture vendor on issues, upgrades, and performance enhancements
- Implement a strategic monitoring platform with streaming infrastructure (Prometheus / Grafana)
What’s required
- 10+ years of Linux System Administration experience supporting RHEL environments
- Experience supporting high frequency trading (HFT) environments within co-locations
- Experience engineering and supporting Market Data and/or third-party feed handlers
- Experience with tuning Linux servers for low latency, high-throughput and kernel bypass (e.g. Exanic / Solarflare)
- Experience with automation/orchestration tools (Ansible, Terraform)
- Experience with a scripting language (Bash, Python)
- Experience with cloud services and provisioning tools
- Experience with monitoring and instrumentation of infrastructure/applications (Prometheus/Grafana)
- Excellent understanding of Market Data and/or third-party feed handlers
- Ability to be an independent problem solver with troubleshooting, decision making, and analytical skills
- Ability to successfully manage multiple tasks and priorities, identify creative options and solutions, able to analyze data, and the ability to manage internal and external contacts
- Experience with version control repositories (Bitbucket / Github) and CI/CD tools
- Commitment to the highest ethical standards
About Point72
Point72 is a leading global alternative investment firm led by Steven A. Cohen. Building on more than 30 years of investing experience, Point72 seeks to deliver superior returns for its investors through fundamental and systematic investing strategies across asset classes and geographies. We aim to attract and retain the industry’s brightest talent by cultivating an investor-led culture and committing to our people’s long-term growth.
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About Cubist:
Cubist Systematic Strategies, an affiliate of Point72, deploys systematic, computer-driven trading strategies across multiple liquid asset classes, including equities, futures and foreign exchange. The core of our effort is rigorous research into a wide range of market anomalies, fueled by our unparalleled access to a wide range of publicly available data sources.
About our Team:
KEPL is a fast-growing team at Cubist Systematic Strategies. We are specialized in medium-frequency statistical arbitrage strategies with high Sharpe. The team is made up of people from top universities and top tier trading and tech firms, including: D.E. Shaw, Two Sigma, Citadel, Meta, Google, etc. We have an open and collaborative culture, and we value rigorous research and innovative technologies.
Please send CVs to kepl-talent@cubistsystematic.com with “2025 KEPL QD Application” in the subject line.
Role:
We are looking for a quantitative software developer to join our team and contribute to multiple initiatives that aim to expand our business. The candidate should be passionate about financial market, data and technology. In this team, the candidate will gain full-stack exposure and build expertise in multiple aspects of quantitative trading.
Responsibilities:
- Improve data ETL pipeline and build tools to analyze new data efficiently.
- Build technologies to bolster research & trading efficiency.
- Expand to new markets and asset classes.
- Manage day-to-day operations in a fast-paced environment.
Requirements
- Master/PhD degree in math, computer science, engineering, or other related fields.
- 1-3 years of professional experience in software development or data science/analytics.
- Strong combination of quantitative skills and programming skills.
- Proficiency in Python; knowledge of common data analytics tools (e.g., SQL, pandas) is a plus.
- Familiarity with the Linux environment.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
- Willing to work in a fast-paced start-up environment.
- Commitment to the highest ethical standards.
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ABOUT CUBIST
Cubist Systematic Strategies, an affiliate of Point72, deploys systematic, computer-driven trading strategies across multiple liquid asset classes, including equities, futures and foreign exchange. The core of our effort is rigorous research into a wide range of market anomalies, fueled by our unparalleled access to a wide range of publicly available data sources.
ROLE/RESPONSIBILITIES:
- Building components for both live trading and simulation of global equities portfolios
- Building tools for simulation, portfolio construction, dashboards, and the research framework
- Designing and deploying new features to improve portfolio construction methodology and process
- Maintaining and updating the platform, ensuring its stability, robustness, and security
- Identifying deficiencies in the trading platform and deploying solutions
- Developing robust data checking and storage procedures
- Troubleshooting and resolving any systems related issues and handling the release of code fixes and enhancements
REQUIREMENTS:
- Master’s degree or higher in mathematics, statistics, computer science, or other quantitative discipline
- 2+ years of experience designing and developing research tools at a tech firm or quant hedge fund
- Experience with systematic portfolio construction for equities a plus
- Strong programming skills in Python
- Experience with kdb, database design, and large datasets
- Willing to take ownership of his/her work, working both independently and within a small team
- Commitment to the highest ethical standards
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ABOUT CUBIST
Cubist Systematic Strategies, an affiliate of Point72, deploys systematic, computer-driven trading strategies across multiple liquid asset classes, including equities, futures and foreign exchange. The core of our effort is rigorous research into a wide range of market anomalies, fueled by our unparalleled access to a wide range of publicly available data sources.
ROLE
Entry-Level Quantitative Researchers are responsible for conducting rigorous quantitative research with a focus on predictive models. You will be trained in all aspects of systematic trading from idea generation all the way to practical trading considerations. Successful hires will ultimately become thought leaders within our collaborative research group.
RESPONSIBILITIES
- Conduct original quantitative alpha signal research
- Follow, digest and analyze the latest academic research
- Manage all aspects of the research process, including idea generation, data analysis, hypothesis development and testing, alpha discovery, trading strategy generation, backtesting and portfolio analysis
- Build analytical tools to supplement our shared research framework
REQUIRMENTS
- B.S., M.S. or PhD in finance, economics, mathematics, statistics, data science, computer science, or other quantitative discipline.
- Programming in Python (or comparable language) and working knowledge of SQL
- Strong analytical and quantitative skills.
- Willingness to take ownership of his/her work.
- Ability to work both independently and collaboratively within a team.
- Strong desire to deliver high quality results in a timely fashion.
- Detail-oriented.
- Prior experience in the financial services industry is not required.
- A commitment to the highest ethical standards.
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Role:
Point72 is looking for a Quantitative Developer to join its Fund Flow Research team. The Fund Flow Group provides best in class flow and positioning indicators to help PMs, analysts, and traders across all investment functions understand their investment backdrop, better assess reward and risk, and identify alpha opportunities.
Responsibilities:
- Partner with researchers to release high-quality production code
- Integrate AI into written content creation, internal client service, and team operations
- Develop generic frameworks to build flow datasets across equities, credit, and macro
- Troubleshoot and resolve production issues
Requirements:
- Undergraduate degree or higher in a technical field
- Strong programming skills in Python
- Strong orientation towards team success and desire to mentor teammates
- Passion for technology and markets
- Strong written and verbal communication skills
- Intellectual curiosity, exceptional attention to detail, and the ability to manage multiple projects and deadlines in a fast-paced environment
- Commitment to the highest ethical standards
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About Cubist
Cubist Systematic Strategies, an affiliate of Point72, deploys systematic, computer-driven trading strategies across multiple liquid asset classes, including equities, futures and foreign exchange. The core of our effort is rigorous research into a wide range of market anomalies, fueled by our unparalleled access to a wide range of publicly available data sources.
Role
Data Scientists bridge the gap between raw data and predictive modelling. We believe everything starts with data. You will work closely with our quantitative research team, applying advanced techniques to engineer, validate, and refine features that feed directly into our systematic models. This is a role within an established investment team, offering opportunities for progression into more senior research responsibilities across the full trading pipeline.
Responsibilities
- Conduct thorough data analysis under the mentorship of a senior quantitative researcher.
- Generate novel ideas for enhanced proprietary data products.
- Track and evaluate new offerings from internal and external data vendors in partnership with Compliance.
- Transform firm approved raw datasets into robust features for our systematic models.
- Build analytical tools to supplement our shared research framework.
Requirements
- BS, MS or PhD in finance, economics, mathematics, statistics, data science, computer science, or other quantitative discipline.
- Programming in Python (or a comparable language) and working knowledge of SQL.
- Strong analytical and quantitative skills.
- Willingness to take ownership of their work.
- Ability to work both independently and collaboratively within a team.
- Strong desire to deliver high quality results in a timely fashion.
- High attention to detail.
- Prior experience as a data analyst, data sourcing specialist, or data scientist for a financial firm is a plus
- Commitment to the highest ethical standards.
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Role:
Point72 is looking for a Fund Flow Strategist to join its Fund Flow Research team. The Fund Flow Group provides best in class flow and positioning indicators to help PMs, analysts, and traders across all investment functions understand their investment backdrop, better assess reward and risk, and identify alpha opportunities.
Responsibilities:
- Create content targeted at discretionary portfolio managers.
- Refine and advance current product offerings.
- Assist in daily workflow contributing to internal communications and data production.
- Contribute to research efforts formalizing and building new models.
- Work with PMs and analysts to answer questions and identify needs and additional features.
Requirements:
- Undergraduate degree or higher in a technical field.
- Passion for research, markets, and problem solving.
- Strong written and verbal communication skills.
- Strategy, data science, or quant research experience at a financial institution.
- Experience working with time series and point in time data.
- Strong programming skills in Python and SQL.
- Intellectual curiosity, exceptional attention to detail, and the ability to manage multiple projects and deadlines in a fast-paced environment.
- Commitment to the highest ethical standards.
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ROLE
We are passionate about data. We collaborate to build elegant, effective, scalable and highly reliable solutions to empower predictive modelling in finance.
Cubist’s Data Services (CDS) group is looking for a Data Scientist to join our dedicated data team. Our group is responsible for the timely delivery of comprehensive and error-free data to some of the most demanding and successful systematic Portfolio Managers in the world.
As a Senior Data Scientist in the team, this individual will play a vital role in ensuring the smooth day-to-day implementation of a large research infrastructure, and the live production trading of billions of dollars of capital across global capital markets, including equities, futures, options and other financial instruments.
RESPONSIBILITIES
- Onboarding novel datasets from a huge variety of sources into our platform
- Building processes, tools and frameworks to ingest, clean and deliver datasets
- Analysis of data for usability, cleanliness, feature extraction and proposed usage by investment teams
- Creation of in-house, value added, derived data products for consumption by investment teams
- Engaging with vendors and internal stakeholders to understand characteristics of datasets
- Partnering closely with investment teams to ensure their data requirements are met
- Research on new technologies (including AI solutions) to continuously improve data management and value-add for investment teams
REQUIREMENTS
- PhD or Masters in Financial Engineering, Statistics, Computer Science or other disciplines involving rigorous quantitative analysis
- Strong programming skills in Python and SQL
- Experience working with AWS, Linux and Airflow preferred but not required
- 5+ years of experience as a Data Scientist or similar role
- Experience working with large data sets including predictive modeling
- Financial industry experience preferred but not required
- Strong organization, communication and interpersonal skills
- Intellectual curiosity and enthusiasm for learning
- Attention to detail and a love of processes
- Strong oral and written communication skills
- Ability to multitask and prioritize assignments
- Commitment to the highest ethical standards
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About Cubist
Cubist Systematic Strategies, an affiliate of Point72, deploys systematic, computer-driven trading strategies across multiple liquid asset classes, including equities, futures and foreign exchange. The core of our effort is rigorous research into a wide range of market anomalies, fueled by our unparalleled access to a wide range of publicly available data sources.
Role:
A new Cubist portfolio management team specializing in the systematic trading of equities is looking for a Quant Researcher whose core focus will be working on mid-frequency alpha strategies. Joining the team will provide a unique opportunity to be involved with the early stages of a product launch and develop within a growing team.
Responsibilities:
- Perform rigorous and innovative research to discover systematic anomalies in the equities market
- End-to-end development, including alpha idea generation, data processing, strategy backtesting, optimization, and production implementation
- Identify and evaluate new datasets for stock return prediction
- Maintain and improve portfolio trading in a production environment
- Contribute to the analysis framework for scalable research
Requirements:
- MS or PhD in a quantitative discipline
- 0-2 years of professional work experience
- A background in financial markets is not necessary, but an interest in the field is essential
- Proven expertise in Python and handling large datasets
- Fluency in data science practices, e.g., feature engineering. Experience with machine learning is a plus
- Highly motivated, curious, and critical thinker
- Collaborative mindset with strong independent research abilities
- Commitment to the highest ethical standards
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About Cubist:
Cubist Systematic Strategies, an affiliate of Point72, deploys systematic, computer-driven trading strategies across multiple liquid asset classes, including equities, futures and foreign exchange. The core of our effort is rigorous research into a wide range of market anomalies, fueled by our unparalleled access to a wide range of publicly available data sources.
Role:
Quantitative Developer for a PM team focused on systematic credit and related asset classes. This is a unique opportunity to collaborate, learn, and lead technology projects with high business impact.
Responsibilities:
- Design and develop software for strategy research and trading.
- Build and improve tools for data acquisition, processing, and visualization.
- Work on the execution/order management system, live dashboards, and P&L reconciliation tools.
- Manage the team’s CI/CD pipeline, job running infrastructure, and other tech components.
- Ensure robustness and efficiency of the team’s systems. Be ready to troubleshoot and correct any issues.
- Collaborate with the portfolio manager, quant researchers, and traders.
Requirements:
- Undergraduate or graduate degree in Computer Science.
- 2+ years of experience developing research and trading infrastructure at a financial institution, or demonstrated excellent skills required for the role.
- Prior experience with execution/order management systems, real-time data servers, and visualization is a plus.
- Solid understanding of Linux OS—system components, process management, shell scripting.
- Proficiency in Python, including in the object-oriented design, unit/reg testing, conda environment management.
- Knowledge of SQL, JavaScript, Apache airflow.
- Strong communication skills.
- Willingness to take ownership of his/her work.
- Commitment to the highest ethical standards.
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About Cubist
Cubist Systematic Strategies, an affiliate of Point72, deploys systematic, computer-driven trading strategies across multiple liquid asset classes, including equities, futures and foreign exchange. The core of our effort is rigorous research into a wide range of market anomalies, fueled by our unparalleled access to a wide range of publicly available data sources.
Role
Quantitative Researchers are responsible for independently conducting quantitative financial research with a focus on statistical and predictive models. Successful researchers manage all aspects of the research process including methodology selection, data collection and analysis, testing, prototyping, backtesting, and performance monitoring.
Desirable Candidates
- M.S., Ph.D., or Ph.D. candidates in finance, computer science, mathematics, physics, or other quantitative discipline.
- Programming in any of the following: C++, C#, Java, or Python.
- Strong analytical and quantitative skills.
- Keen interest in quantitative research and metrics driven decision making.
- Demonstrated ability to conduct independent research utilizing large data sets.
- Detail-oriented.
- Passion for spotting trends in data.
- Willingness to take ownership of his/her work, working both independently and within a small team.
- Ability to work under pressure.
Prior experience developing, researching, or implementing quantitative models for equities is preferred, but not required. We will provide training for new researchers without finance backgrounds.
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ABOUT CUBIST
Cubist Systematic Strategies, an affiliate of Point72, deploys systematic, computer-driven trading strategies across multiple liquid asset classes, including equities, futures and foreign exchange. The core of our effort is rigorous research into a wide range of market anomalies, fueled by our unparalleled access to a wide range of publicly available data sources.
ROLE
- Dynamically managing portfolio risk by evaluating historical and real-time strategy performance.
- Overseeing automated trade execution and monitoring transaction costs.
- Supervising a small team of researchers and developers on a daily basis.
- Designing, researching, and managing sophisticated investment strategies by creating and engineering advance quantitative financial computer modeling systems to aid in analysis and research.
- Performing research to acquire historical and production data sources needed to build investment models.
- Designing and developing quantitative mathematical algorithms to link the diverse data sets from various providers.
- Engineering investment models that will make the buy and sell recommendations for the portfolios using advanced quantitative mathematic statistics and investment theory to design and program strategies that explicitly forecast risk, return, and trading costs.
- Using quantitative models to value securities.
- Conducting ongoing, cutting-edge quantitative research and analysis to enhance existing strategies and to expand into new markets.
- Developing aspects of successful statistical models, focusing on forecasting and optimization.
- Expanding trading universe and volume and expanding to other exchanges and products.
REQUIREMENTS
- Advance degree (Masters or Ph.D.) in a computational or analytical field.
- Minimum of 10 years’ experience developing, researching or implementing quantitative models for equities, futures and/or FX.
- Hands on experience with all aspects of the research process, including methodology section, data collection and analysis, testing, prototyping, backtesting, and performance monitoring.
- Innovative, intellectually driven, with an intense curiosity about financial markets and human behavior.
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Role
Quantitative Researcher for a new team focused on systematic corporate bond and credit derivatives strategies.
Responsibilities
- Independently conduct quantitative research, adopting a rigorous approach and using statistical and structural models
- Contribute to all aspects of the research and production process, including implementation of fitting tools; data organization; generation of alphas, risk and TC models; P&L attribution, etc.
- Proactively search for and prioritize new ideas and datasets for alpha potential
- Contribute to continuous improvement of the investment process and infrastructure in collaboration with the portfolio managers, developers and traders on the team
Requirements
- PhD or Master’s degree in Economics, Finance, Statistics, Mathematics, Physics, or other quantitative discipline
- 2+ years of experience developing statistical and fundamental alpha signals, risk factors for single name credit, equities, or options. Demonstrated ability to conduct research utilizing large data sets
- Experience with FICC, credit or option pricing models is preferred
- Experience with numerical optimization methods is a plus
- Solid programming skills: understanding of the object-oriented programming and CI/CD framework. Proficiency in Python, including with packages used for data research, best practices of coding style, etc.
- Strong communication skills
- Willingness to take ownership of his/her work, working both independently and within a team
The annual base salary range for this role is $150,000-$200,000 (USD) , which does not include discretionary bonus compensation or our comprehensive benefits package. Actual compensation offered to the successful candidate may vary from posted hiring range based upon geographic location, work experience, education, and/or skill level, among other things.
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ABOUT CUBIST
Cubist Systematic Strategies, an affiliate of Point72, deploys systematic, computer-driven trading strategies across multiple liquid asset classes, including equities, futures and foreign exchange. The core of our effort is rigorous research into a wide range of market anomalies, fueled by our unparalleled access to a wide range of publicly available data sources.
JOB DESCRIPTION
Researchers are responsible for independently conducting quantitative finance research with a focus on statistical and predictive models. Successful researchers manage all aspects of the research process including methodology selection, data collection and analysis, testing, prototyping, backtesting, and performance monitoring.
Some successful researchers have joined us from similar backgrounds at other firms. Others have joined from related fields or directly from academia and have thrived with hands on guidance from our large team of experienced portfolio managers and researchers. Our most exceptional team members combine strong technical skills and a passion for problem solving with an intense curiosity about financial markets and human behavior.
DESIRABLE CANDIDATES
- MS or PhD candidates in finance, computer science, mathematics, physics, or other quantitative discipline
- 3-7 years of experience in alpha driven quantitative research for equities, futures, fixed income, credit, and/or FX
- Strong analytical and quantitative skills
- Demonstrated ability to conduct independent research utilizing large data sets
- Programming in any of the following: C++, Java, C#, MATLAB, R, Python, or Perl
- Detail-oriented
- Willing to take ownership of his/her work, working both independently and within a small team
We’re looking for exceptional colleagues with unparalleled passion. If you’d like your resume to stand out, tell us about your exceptional personal achievements, even if they have nothing to do with finance. Of course we love to hear more about specific engineering or data projects that you’ve worked outside of school, or as part of your curriculum. If you’re proud of the work you did we want to hear about it. In addition to exceptional statisticians and engineers, we work with talented musicians, writers, mathematicians, and founders of non-profits; we’d love to learn more about what excites you.
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ABOUT CUBIST
Cubist Systematic Strategies, an affiliate of Point72, deploys systematic, computer-driven trading strategies across multiple liquid asset classes, including equities, futures and foreign exchange. The core of our effort is rigorous research into a wide range of market anomalies, fueled by our unparalleled access to a wide range of publicly available data sources.
ROLE
The candidate will be responsible for some or all of parts of the research pipeline—including data processing, feature design, model training, portfolio construction and management, back-testing, and performance analysis. Successful researchers combine statistical analysis, machine learning techniques, intense passion, and curiosity to decipher the market, and aspire to gain great intellectual understanding and financial outperformance.
RESPONSIBILITIES
- Finding alphas in global equity markets by applying rigorous statistical analysis on technical data or alternative data sets. Performing hypotheses testing, feature design, and backtesting to improve on alpha ideas.
- Maintaining and improving the research pipeline, including alpha generation, portfolio construction, back-testing, and monetization.
- Maintaining and improving portfolio trading in production environments.
REQUIREMENTS
- Bachelors degree or higher in mathematics, statistics, computer science, or other quantitative discipline.
- 2+ years of experience in quantitative research. Experience in medium frequency equity research is a plus.
- Strong analytical and quantitative skills; solid knowledge in statistics, linear algebra, or machine learning.
- Proficiency in Python. Familiarity with scientific toolkits, such as Numpy and Pandas.
- Ability to work both independently and collaboratively within a team.
- Commitment to the highest ethical standards.
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Role:
An established quantitative portfolio management team at Point72 is looking for an experienced trader to oversee the team’s trading process, contribute to its core business, and develop new areas of expertise. This is an opportunity for candidates with expertise in systematic trading to take on a leading role on the front lines of the team’s investment process.
Responsibilities:
- Oversight of international equities and macro systematic trading during European hours and provide backup coverage during US morning.
- Execute trades in rates instruments across global OTC markets.
- Build relationships and negotiate trades with liquidity partners to achieve best execution.
- Monitor and support portfolio construction, execution, connectivity, and related processes.
- Help conduct post-trading execution and transaction cost analysis and suggest ways to improve.
- Support the international implementation of internally developed algorithms and help monitor them for any trading issues.
Requirements:
- 2+ years of work experience in algorithmic trading and exposure to systematic macro strategies, ideally with experience in futures, fixed income, FX, and exchange-traded global equities.
- Undergraduate or higher degree in computer science, statistics, applied mathematics, engineering, or other quantitative discipline.
- Familiarity with SQL and Python.
- Familiarity with vendor trading platforms including Tradeweb and Bloomberg.
- Detail-oriented and vigilant about potential operational risks.
- Strong quantitative skills and sensitivity to numbers.
- Commitment to the highest ethical standards.
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Point72 is seeking a Quantitative Developer to join its Portfolio Construction and Analysis (PCA) team within the CIO office.
The PCA team plays a vital role in the Equity L/S business at the firm, collaborating with investment teams to improve net revenue and risk adjusted returns. The Quantitative Developer will build, refine, and maintain an efficient technology infrastructure to enable and support the team’s quantitative research and analytical efforts.
The ideal candidate is a smart, self-driven, and creative problem solver with strong technical and quantitative skills.
RESPONSIBILITIES
- Architect, build, refine, and increase automation and robustness of the research infrastructure, including data access, risk modeling, and backtesting components
- Collaborate with quant researchers to implement framework for automating and presenting analytics, reports, and monitors
- Collaborate with firm-wide technology teams to deliver analytics and tools to users across the firm
DESIREABLE CANDIDATES
- Undergraduate, Masters, or PhD in Computer Science or other quantitative discipline
- 3+ years of professional experience developing infrastructure to support an investment team
- Strong programming skills in Python and SQL
- Solid background in math/statistics/finance and familiarity with quantitative research methodologies and machine learning algorithms
- Understanding of and experience with the data ingestion process
- Ability to contribute to the analytics, quant research, and development process
- Understanding of portfolio construction is a plus
- Knowledge of equities is a plus
- High-energy personality and the ability to manage multiple tasks and deadlines in a fast-paced environment
- High degree of drive – must be a self-starter
- Ability to recognize and seize opportunities
- Depth of skills enabling him/her to perform ad hoc projects and tasks with fast turnover
- Ability to communicate clearly and concisely
- Ability to work cooperatively with all levels of staff and to thrive in a team-oriented environment
- A commitment to the highest ethical standards and to act with professionalism and integrity
Point72 is a leading global alternative investment firm led by Steven A. Cohen. Building on more than 30 years of investing experience, Point72 seeks to deliver superior returns for its investors through fundamental and systematic investing strategies across asset classes and geographies. We aim to attract and retain the industry’s brightest talent by cultivating an investor-led culture and committing to our people’s long-term growth.
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ABOUT CUBIST
Cubist Systematic Strategies, an affiliate of Point72, deploys systematic, computer-driven trading strategies across multiple liquid asset classes, including equities, futures and foreign exchange. The core of our effort is rigorous research into a wide range of market anomalies, fueled by our unparalleled access to a wide range of publicly available data sources.
ROLE
Entry-Level Quantitative Researchers are responsible for conducting rigorous quantitative research with a focus on predictive models. You will be trained in all aspects of systematic trading from idea generation all the way to practical trading considerations. Successful hires will ultimately become thought leaders within our collaborative research group.
RESPONSIBILITIES
- Conduct original quantitative alpha signal research
- Follow, digest and analyze the latest academic research
- Manage all aspects of the research process, including idea generation, data analysis, hypothesis development and testing, alpha discovery, trading strategy generation, backtesting and portfolio analysis
- Build analytical tools to supplement our shared research framework
REQUIRMENTS
- B.S., M.S. or PhD in finance, economics, mathematics, statistics, data science, computer science, or other quantitative discipline.
- Programming in Python (or comparable language) and working knowledge of SQL
- Strong analytical and quantitative skills.
- Willingness to take ownership of his/her work.
- Ability to work both independently and collaboratively within a team.
- Strong desire to deliver high quality results in a timely fashion.
- Detail-oriented.
- Prior experience in the financial services industry is not required.
- A commitment to the highest ethical standards.
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ROLE/RESPONSIBILTIES:
We are seeking an NLP engineer to join a quant research team within Point72. The ideal candidate has a track record of developing modern NLP solutions, including the use of LLMs, agents, RAG, etc.
We believe the investment world offers unique opportunities to use modern NLP methods.
Responsibilities may include:
- Exploring and combining rich internal and external textual datasets
- Formulating research hypothesis to derive alpha
- Building GenAI solutions, leveraging both internal models and external APIs
REQUIREMENTS:
- Bachelor, Master’s or PhD degree in computer science or another quantitative discipline
- Experience in NLP, particularly LLMs
- Proficient in Python, SQL and general software engineering principles (github, testing, etc.)
- Data science stack familiarity
- Interest in financial markets
- Collaborative mindset
- Commitment to the highest ethical standards
ABOUT POINT72:
Point72 is a leading global alternative investment firm led by Steven A. Cohen. Building on more than 30 years of investing experience, Point72 seeks to deliver superior returns for its investors through fundamental and systematic investing strategies across asset classes and geographies. We aim to attract and retain the industry’s brightest talent by cultivating an investor-led culture and committing to our people’s long-term growth.
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ABOUT CUBIST
Cubist Systematic Strategies, an affiliate of Point72, deploys systematic, computer-driven trading strategies across multiple liquid asset classes, including equities, futures and foreign exchange. The core of our effort is rigorous research into a wide range of market anomalies, fueled by our unparalleled access to a wide range of publicly available data sources.
ROLE
Entry-Level Quantitative Researchers are responsible for conducting rigorous quantitative research with a focus on predictive models. You will be trained in all aspects of systematic trading from idea generation all the way to practical trading considerations. Successful hires will ultimately become thought leaders within our collaborative research group.
RESPONSIBILITIES
- Conduct original quantitative alpha signal research
- Follow, digest and analyze the latest academic research
- Manage all aspects of the research process, including idea generation, data analysis, hypothesis development and testing, alpha discovery, trading strategy generation, backtesting and portfolio analysis
- Build analytical tools to supplement our shared research framework
REQUIRMENTS
- B.S., M.S. or PhD in finance, economics, mathematics, statistics, data science, computer science, or other quantitative discipline.
- Programming in Python (or comparable language) and working knowledge of SQL
- Strong analytical and quantitative skills.
- Willingness to take ownership of his/her work.
- Ability to work both independently and collaboratively within a team.
- Strong desire to deliver high quality results in a timely fashion.
- Detail-oriented.
- Prior experience in the financial services industry is not required.
- A commitment to the highest ethical standards.
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About Cubist
Cubist Systematic Strategies, an affiliate of Point72, deploys systematic, computer-driven trading strategies across multiple liquid asset classes, including equities, futures and foreign exchange. The core of our effort is rigorous research into a wide range of market anomalies, fueled by our unparalleled access to a wide range of publicly available data sources.
Role
Quantitative researcher to help build out a systematic macro (futures, FX, and vol) strategies. Core focus will be working on mid-frequency alpha strategies.
Job Description
- Develop systematic trading models across FX, commodities, fixed income, and equity markets
- Alpha idea generation, backtesting, and implementation
- Assist in building, maintenance, and continual improvement of production and trading environments
- Evaluate new datasets for alpha potential
- Improve existing strategies and portfolio optimization
- Execution monitoring
- Be a core contributor to growing the investment process and research infrastructure of the team
Desirable Candidates
- Masters or PhD in mathematics, statistics, physics or other quantitative discipline. PhD in statistics or machine learning is a plus
- Experience in quantitative trading, ideally in FX or futures
- Experience with alpha research, portfolio construction and optimization
- Experience building statistical/technical, fundamental, and data driven signals
- Experience synthesizing predictive signals for both cross-sectional and time-series models
- Strong experience with data exploration, dimension reduction, and feature engineering
- Thorough understanding of and comfort using a variety of regression techniques—including OLS, MLS, Ridge, Lasso, and Bayesian inference—as well as techniques for dealing with errors that can occur, such as auto-correlation and heteroskedasticity
- Experience managing and running risk is a strong plus
- Proficiency in Python using the machine learning stack—numpy, pandas, scikit-learn, etc.
- Creative mindset
- Strong time management ability—the ability to manage multiple tasks and deadlines in a fast-paced environment
- High degree of drive and energy—must be a self-starter
- Ability to work cooperatively with all levels of staff and to thrive in a team-oriented environment
- Commitment to the highest ethical standards and who act with professionalism and integrity at all times
The annual base salary range for this role is $150,000-$200,000 (USD) , which does not include discretionary bonus compensation or our comprehensive benefits package. Actual compensation offered to the successful candidate may vary from posted hiring range based upon geographic location, work experience, education, and/or skill level, among other things.
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DESCRIPTION
We are looking for a motivated and skilled NLP Engineer with experience in deep learning frameworks. This position is ideal for candidates who are eager to grow their skills in the financial industry and make a significant impact.
RESPONSIBILITIES
- Build start-of-the-art deep learning models to process large scale unstructured datasets.
- Engage with vendors to understand characteristics of datasets.
- Analyze datasets to generate descriptive statistics and propose potential applications of data.
- Conduct preliminary research and evaluation on the datasets for presentation to Portfolio Managers.
- Research new technologies for efficient data management and data retrieval.
REQUIREMENTS
- PhD or Master’s degree in computer science, data science, statistics or other quantitative discipline. Bachelor's degree with extensive relevant work experience will also be considered.
- At least 3 years of experience in NLP, computer vision, speech, or a related field.
- Extensive experience with deep learning frameworks (e.g., TensorFlow, PyTorch).
- In-depth understanding of the architectures of modern language models, with practical experience in model implementation and training.
- Excellent coding skills in Python.
- Programming skills in SQL.
- Experience working with large data sets.
- Strong oral and written communication skills.
- Strong team player.
- Financial industry experience preferred but not required.
- Candidates with top machine learning conference papers (e.g., NeurIPS, ICLR, ICML, ACL, EMNLP, NAACL) are preferred.
- Commitment to the highest ethical standards.
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ROLE/RESPONSIBILITES
- Perform rigorous and innovative research to discover systematic anomalies in equity market
- End-to-end development: alpha idea generation, data processing, strategy backtesting, optimization and production implementation
- Identify and evaluate new datasets for stock return predictions
- Maintain and improve the portfolio trading in production environment
REQUIREMENTS
- MS or PhD in physics, engineering, statistics, applied math, quantitative finance or other quantitative fields with a strong foundation in statistics
- 1+ years of work experience in systematic alpha research in equities
- Experience developing short term alpha signals (intraday or a few days) is a plus
- Demonstrated proficiency in R or Python
- Strong command of foundations of applied statistics, linear algebra, and time series models
- Ability to quickly and efficiently scrub, format, and manipulate large, raw data sources
- Strong knowledge of financial markets
- Highly motivated, willing to take ownership of his/her work
- Collaborative mindset with strong independent research ability
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ROLE
We are passionate about data. We collaborate to build elegant, effective, scalable and highly reliable solutions to empower predictive modelling in finance.
Cubist’s Data Services (CDS) group is looking for a Data Scientist to join our dedicated data team. Our group is responsible for the timely delivery of comprehensive and error-free data to some of the most demanding and successful systematic Portfolio Managers in the world.
As a Senior Data Scientist in the team, this individual will play a vital role in ensuring the smooth day-to-day implementation of a large research infrastructure, and the live production trading of billions of dollars of capital across global capital markets, including equities, futures, options and other financial instruments.
RESPONSIBILITIES
- Onboarding novel datasets from a huge variety of sources into our platform
- Building processes, tools and frameworks to ingest, clean and deliver datasets
- Analysis of data for usability, cleanliness, feature extraction and proposed usage by investment teams
- Creation of in-house, value added, derived data products for consumption by investment teams
- Engaging with vendors and internal stakeholders to understand characteristics of datasets
- Partnering closely with investment teams to ensure their data requirements are met
- Research on new technologies (including AI solutions) to continuously improve data management and value-add for investment teams
REQUIREMENTS
- PhD or Masters in Financial Engineering, Statistics, Computer Science or other disciplines involving rigorous quantitative analysis
- Strong programming skills in Python and SQL
- Experience working with AWS, Linux and Airflow preferred but not required
- 5+ years of experience as a Data Scientist or similar role
- Experience working with large data sets including predictive modeling
- Financial industry experience preferred but not required
- Strong organization, communication and interpersonal skills
- Intellectual curiosity and enthusiasm for learning
- Attention to detail and a love of processes
- Strong oral and written communication skills
- Ability to multitask and prioritize assignments
- Commitment to the highest ethical standards
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ABOUT CUBIST
Cubist Systematic Strategies is one of the world’s premier investment firms. The firm deploys systematic, computer-driven trading strategies across multiple liquid asset classes, including equities, futures and foreign exchange. The core of our effort is rigorous research into a wide range of market anomalies, fueled by our unparalleled access to a wide range of publicly available data sources.
RESPONSIBILITIES
- Perform rigorous applied research to discover systematic anomalies in equities markets
- Present actionable trading ideas and enhance existing strategies
- Identify short term opportunities in the high frequency/intraday space
- Participate in end-to-end development (i.e. data orchestration, alpha idea generation, simulation, strategy implementation, and performance evaluation)
- Contribute towards the team’s research tooling and its efficiency
- Help establish a collaborative mindset and shared ownership
REQUIREMENTS
- Bachelor’s degree or higher in mathematics, statistics, computer science, or similar quantitative discipline
- 3+ years of work experience in systematic alpha research in equities using high frequency/intraday data
- Fluency in data science practices, e.g., feature engineering, signal combining
- Technically comfortable handling large datasets
- Comfortable coding in both C++ and Python in a Linux environment
- Exposure working with cloud computing platforms such as AWS
- Highly motivated and willing to take ownership of his/her work
- Collaborative mindset with strong independent research ability
- Commitment to the highest ethical standards
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ROLE
We are passionate about data. We collaborate to build elegant, effective, scalable and highly reliable solutions to empower predictive modelling in finance.
Cubist’s Data Services (CDS) group is looking for a Data Scientist to join our dedicated data team. Our group is responsible for the timely delivery of comprehensive and error-free data to some of the most demanding and successful systematic Portfolio Managers in the world.
As a Data Scientist in the team, this individual will play a vital role in ensuring the smooth day-to-day implementation of a large research infrastructure, and the live production trading of billions of dollars of capital across global capital markets, including equities, futures, options and other financial instruments.
RESPONSIBILITIES
- Onboarding novel datasets from a huge variety of sources into our platform
- Develop, test and deploy data pipelines, applications and services
- Re-shaping, aggregating, enhancing and creating features from datasets
- Engaging with vendors and internal stakeholders to understand characteristics of datasets
- Defining and automating qualitative data alerts and reports
- Partnering closely with investment teams to ensure their data requirements are met
- Perform preliminary analysis and research to be shared with investment teams
REQUIREMENTS
- Masters in Financial Engineering, Statistics, Computer Science or other disciplines involving rigorous quantitative analysis
- Strong programming skills in Python and SQL
- Experience working with AWS, Linux and Airflow preferred but not required
- Financial industry experience preferred but not required
- Strong organization, communication and interpersonal skills
- Attention to detail and a love of processes
- Strong oral and written communication skills
- Ability to exercise sound judgment in assessing and determining how to handle queries, calls and issues
- Ability to multitask and prioritize assignments
- Commitment to the highest ethical standards
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JOB RESPONSIBILITIES
A highly collaborative, fast-growing team, Point72 Internal Alpha Capture (IAC) is developing scalable quantitative equity trading signals that leverage rigorous research, state-of-the-art machine learning methods, a broad range of public and proprietary data sources, and unparalleled computing power.
We are looking for exceptional students to join us as quantitative researcher interns for Fall 2025, Spring 2026 and Summer 2026. Our interns will work closely with our team, receive comprehensive, in-depth training, and help develop novel signals that may have real impact.
You will gain exposure to a variety of activities, which may include:
- Conducting full pipeline signal research, from ideation, via implementation and backtesting, to eventual application.
- Adapting and extending existing results in the broad field of machine learning; conducting novel research as needed to potentially develop new signals that may enhance portfolio returns.
- Analyzing very large data sets to extract features useful for predictive models.
- Providing research assistance to the team.
- Helping improve the team’s research infrastructure.
DESIRABLE CANDIDATES
- Masters or PhD candidates in machine learning, computer science, finance, mathematics, or other quantitative disciplines.
- Demonstrated ability to conduct independent research utilizing machine learning over large, possibly noisy, data sets.
- Strong analytical and quantitative skills, and detail-oriented mindset.
- Proficient in Python or C++, and Linux environment.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, willing to proactively engage other team members in helping to foster a highly collaborative, team-oriented research environment.
- Willing to take ownership of his/her work, working both independently and within a collaborative team.
- Prior experience in the financial services industry is not required.
- Commitment to the highest ethical standards.
The annual base salary range is $120000.00-$180000.00 (USD). Actual compensation offered to candidate may vary from posted hiring range based upon geographic location, work experience, education, and/or skill level among other things. Details about eligibility for bonus compensation (if applicable) will be finalized at the time of offer.
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About the Team:
A well-established quantitative portfolio management team at Point72 is looking for an experienced quantitative professional to develop and trade systematic macro strategies, with a focus on market microstructure. The candidate will be given the resources and support to drive the build out and expansion of the quantitative macro business.
Role/Responsibilities:
- Perform rigorous and innovative research to develop systematic signals for global macro (futures, FX, etc.) markets, with a focus on market microstructure signals
- Perform feature engineering with order book tick data at intraday to daily horizons
- Perform feature combination using various modeling techniques ranging from linear to machine learning models
- Participate in the research pipeline end-to-end, including signal idea generation, data processing, modeling, strategy backtesting, and production implementation
- Help drive the growth of the investment process and research capabilities of the team
- Work in a team of highly qualified and motivated individuals with access to a cutting-edge research and trading infrastructure and clean datasets
- Assist in building, maintenance, and continual improvement of production and trading environments
Requirements:
- MS or PhD in physics, engineering, statistics, applied math, quantitative finance, or other quantitative fields with a strong foundation in statistics
- 4+ years of experience in quantitative research, building statistical models for intraday to daily trading, as part of a successful proprietary trading team with a track record
- Knowledge of market microstructure for futures and/or FX
- Prior experience with tick data based feature generation, modelling, and monetization
- Demonstrated proficiency in Python, R, or C/C++. Familiarly with data science toolkits, such as scikit-learn, Pandas
- Collaborative mindset with strong independent research abilities
- Commitment to the highest ethical standards
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ROLE
A Cubist portfolio management team specializing in the systematic trading of US credit markets is looking for a highly talented Data Researcher.
RESPONSIBILITIES
- Design and own a process of normalizing and sanitizing fundamental data across a wide universe of public companies (based on 10Q, 10K, etc.)
- Design and own a process of tracking real-time data of corporate bond issuances/redemptions/etc. and other relevant corporate events
- Conduct independent research of the fundamental data, detecting anomalies and outliers. Prioritize and conduct deep dive case studies
- In collaboration with the research team, make predictions of capital structure changes and corporate event outcomes
- Proactively search for alternative, unstructured data sets with signal potential for corporate credit
REQUIREMENTS
- Undergraduate degree or higher in Accounting, Economics, Business, or other related discipline
- 2+ years of work experience as an accountant, financial data analyst, industry analyst, or other related role
- CPA or CFA is a plus. Coursework in Statistics and Econometrics and skills in empirical data analysis are a plus
- Some programming skills are a plus (e.g., Python) and a strong self-learner
- Tenacious, detail-orientated, and organized
- Strong communication skills
- Team player, driven and collaborative
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Cubist Systematic Strategies, an affiliate of Point72, deploys systematic, computer-driven trading strategies across multiple liquid asset classes, including equities, futures and foreign exchange. The core of our effort is rigorous research into a wide range of market anomalies, fueled by our unparalleled access to a wide range of publicly available data sources.
JOB DESCRIPTION
- Independently conduct quantitative finance research with a focus on statistical and predictive models
- Manage all aspects of the research process, including methodology selection, data collection and analysis, prototyping, backtesting, and performance monitoring
- Evaluate new datasets for alpha potential
- Implement models in C++/Python/Q
- Monitor the daily trading process
- Enhance and improve the trading system
DESIRABLE CANDIDATES
- MSc / PhD in finance, computer science, mathematics, physics, engineering, or other quantitative discipline.
- 0-3 years of experience in a quantitative research role.
- Strong programing skills.
- Strong analytical and quantitative skills.
- Demonstrated ability to conduct independent research utilizing large data sets.
- Detail-oriented.
- Willing to take ownership of his/her work, working both independently and within a collaborative team.
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JOB DESCRIPTION
Researchers are responsible for applying, adapting, and extending existing results in the broad field of machine learning, while also conducting novel research as required. We are interested in all aspects of ML including: predictive modelling, clustering, time series analysis, natural language processing, and computer vision. Successful researchers manage all aspects of the research process including methodology selection, data collection and analysis, implementation and testing, prototyping, and performance evaluation.
Some successful researchers have joined us from similar backgrounds at other firms. Others have joined from related fields or directly from academia and have thrived with hands on guidance from our large team of experienced portfolio managers and researchers. Our most exceptional team members combine strong technical skills and a passion for problem solving with an intense curiosity about financial markets and human behavior.
DESIRABLE CANDIDATES
- Students enrolled in a PhD program in machine learning, computer science, statistics, or a related field.
- Superb analytical and quantitative skills, along with a healthy streak of creativity.
- Demonstrated ability to conduct independent research utilizing large data sets.
- Passion for seeing research through from initial conception to eventual application.
- Curiosity about financial markets
- Strong scientific programming in Python, R or Matlab.
- Empirical, detail-oriented mindset.
- Sense of ownership of his/her work, working well both independently and within a small collaborative team.
We’re looking for exceptional colleagues with unparalleled passion. If you’d like your resume to stand out, tell us about your exceptional personal achievements, even if they have nothing to do with finance. Of course we love to hear more about specific engineering or data projects that you’ve worked outside of school, or as part of your curriculum. If you’re proud of the work you did we want to hear about it. In addition to exceptional statisticians and engineers, we work with talented musicians, writers, mathematicians, and founders of non-profits; we’d love to learn more about what excites you.
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ABOUT CUBIST
Cubist Systematic Strategies, an affiliate of Point72, deploys systematic, computer-driven trading strategies across multiple liquid asset classes, including equities, futures and foreign exchange. The core of our effort is rigorous research into a wide range of market anomalies, fueled by our unparalleled access to a wide range of publicly available data sources.
ROLE
Quantitative alpha research requires mastery of multiple domains. The best research requires original research ideas, good intuition, strong data analysis skills, and good research planning. Our research directly drives our investment decisions. This role is highly selective. We have a long history of training extraordinarily talented academic researchers to succeed in the investment services industry. Prior experience in the financial services industry is not required.
RESPONSIBILITIES
- Provide research assistance to full-time researchers
- Assist with data collection and preliminary analysis
- Follow, digest, analyze and improve upon the latest academic research
DESIRABLE CANDIDATES
- Ph.D. candidates in finance, economics, mathematics, statistics, physics, computer science, or other quantitative discipline.
- Programming in any of the following: R, Python, or C++.
- Experience with SQL.
- Solid research experience in the field of the candidate’s specialty.
- Strong analytical and quantitative skills.
- Detail-oriented.
- Demonstrated ability to learn and apply new methodologies to real life problems.
- Willingness to take ownership of his/her work.
- Ability to work both independently and collaboratively within a team.
- Strong desire to deliver high quality results in a timely fashion.
- Prior experience in the financial services industry is not required.
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ABOUT CUBIST
Cubist Systematic Strategies, an affiliate of Point72, deploys systematic, computer-driven trading strategies across multiple liquid asset classes, including equities, futures and foreign exchange. The core of our effort is rigorous research into a wide range of market anomalies, fueled by our unparalleled access to a wide range of publicly available data sources.
ROLE
- Dynamically managing portfolio risk by evaluating historical and real-time strategy performance.
- Overseeing automated trade execution and monitoring transaction costs.
- Supervising a small team of researchers and developers on a daily basis.
- Designing, researching, and managing sophisticated investment strategies by creating and engineering advance quantitative financial computer modeling systems to aid in analysis and research.
- Performing research to acquire historical and production data sources needed to build investment models.
- Designing and developing quantitative mathematical algorithms to link the diverse data sets from various providers.
- Engineering investment models that will make the buy and sell recommendations for the portfolios using advanced quantitative mathematic statistics and investment theory to design and program strategies that explicitly forecast risk, return, and trading costs.
- Using quantitative models to value securities.
- Conducting ongoing, cutting-edge quantitative research and analysis to enhance existing strategies and to expand into new markets.
- Developing aspects of successful statistical models, focusing on forecasting and optimization.
- Expanding trading universe and volume and expanding to other exchanges and products.
REQUIREMENTS
- Advance degree (Masters or Ph.D.) in a computational or analytical field.
- Minimum of 10 years’ experience developing, researching or implementing quantitative models for equities, futures and/or FX.
- Hands on experience with all aspects of the research process, including methodology section, data collection and analysis, testing, prototyping, backtesting, and performance monitoring.
- Innovative, intellectually driven, with an intense curiosity about financial markets and human behavior.
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ROLE
We are passionate about data. We collaborate to build elegant, effective, scalable and highly reliable solutions to empower predictive modelling in finance.
Cubist’s Data Services (CDS) group is looking for a Data Scientist to join our dedicated data team. Our group is responsible for the timely delivery of comprehensive and error-free data to some of the most demanding and successful systematic Portfolio Managers in the world.
As a Data Scientist in the team, this individual will play a vital role in ensuring the smooth day-to-day implementation of a large research infrastructure, and the live production trading of billions of dollars of capital across global capital markets, including equities, futures, options and other financial instruments.
RESPONSIBILITIES
- Onboarding novel datasets from a huge variety of sources into our platform
- Develop, test and deploy data pipelines, applications and services
- Re-shaping, aggregating, enhancing and creating features from datasets
- Engaging with vendors and internal stakeholders to understand characteristics of datasets
- Defining and automating qualitative data alerts and reports
- Partnering closely with investment teams to ensure their data requirements are met
- Perform preliminary analysis and research to be shared with investment teams
REQUIREMENTS
- Masters in Financial Engineering, Statistics, Computer Science or other disciplines involving rigorous quantitative analysis
- Strong programming skills in Python and SQL
- Experience working with AWS, Linux and Airflow preferred but not required
- Financial industry experience preferred but not required
- Strong organization, communication and interpersonal skills
- Attention to detail and a love of processes
- Strong oral and written communication skills
- Ability to exercise sound judgment in assessing and determining how to handle queries, calls and issues
- Ability to multitask and prioritize assignments
- Commitment to the highest ethical standards
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ABOUT CUBIST
Cubist Systematic Strategies, an affiliate of Point72, deploys systematic, computer-driven trading strategies across multiple liquid asset classes, including equities, futures and foreign exchange. The core of our effort is rigorous research into a wide range of market anomalies, fueled by our unparalleled access to a wide range of publicly available data sources.
ROLE
Our research center in Hong Kong is seeking an experienced researcher with a strong background in alpha research. In this highly selective role you will have access to abundant research resources and exciting opportunities to discover high quality alpha signals that directly drive our investment decisions.
RESPONSIBILITIES
- Conduct original quantitative alpha signal research
- Manage all aspects of the research process, including data analysis, alpha signal discovery, backtesting, trading idea generation, alpha signal/portfolio analysis and the management of production code
- Evaluate new datasets for alpha potential
- Follow, digest, analyze and improve upon the latest academic research
DESIRABLE CANDIDATES
- 2+ years of research experience in Equities.
- Ph.D. or M.S. in finance, accounting, economics, mathematics, statistics, physics, computer science, operations research, or another quantitative discipline.
- Programming in any of the following: R, Python, or C++.
- Experience with SQL.
- Demonstrated ability to learn and apply new methodologies to alpha generation.
- Ability to work both independently and collaboratively within a team.
- Strong desire to deliver high quality results in a timely fashion.
- Detail-oriented.
- Willingness to take ownership of his/her work.
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JOB RESPONSIBILITIES:
A highly collaborative, fast-growing team at Internal Alpha Capture (IAC), Point72 is developing AI-driven equity trading signals that leverage rigorous research, state-of-the-art machine learning methods, proprietary data sources, and unparalleled computing power.
We are looking for exceptional machine learning researchers to join our efforts. Researchers will work closely with our experienced team members and apply the full breadth of their machine learning knowledge to unique, proprietary datasets, and develop novel trading signals that have high impact. Prior experience in the financial industry is not required.
Key responsibilities may include:
- Managing all aspects of the research process, including ideation, method selection, implementation, evaluation, and eventual application.
- Identifying, adapting, and extending existing models in the broad field of machine learning; conducting novel research as needed, to develop new signals that can enhance portfolio returns, or predict other variables of interests.
- Staying up to date on the advances in AI/ML and related technological innovations to provide recommendations on new models and tools and identify emerging opportunities.
DESIRABLE CANDIDATES:
- Master’s or PhD in machine learning, computer science, statistics, or related fields.
- Knowledge and experience in any of the following areas are strongly preferred: modern sequence models, graph neutral nets, reinforcement learning, LLMs.
- Prior research experience utilizing machine learning over large, possibly noisy, data sets.
- Strong analytical and quantitative skills, and a detail-oriented mindset.
- Strong proficiency in machine learning libraries such as Torch, JAX or TensorFlow.
- Competence in Python, cluster environment, and general software engineering principles (source control, testing, collaborative workflow).
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills, willing to proactively engage other team members in helping to foster a highly collaborative, team-oriented research environment.
- Commitment to the highest ethical standards.
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ABOUT CUBIST
Cubist Systematic Strategies, an affiliate of Point72, deploys systematic, computer-driven trading strategies across multiple liquid asset classes, including equities, futures and foreign exchange. The core of our effort is rigorous research into a wide range of market anomalies, fueled by our unparalleled access to a wide range of publicly available data sources.
JOB DESCRIPTION
Researchers are responsible for independently conducting quantitative finance research with a focus on statistical and predictive models. Successful researchers manage all aspects of the research process including methodology selection, data collection and analysis, testing, prototyping, backtesting, and performance monitoring.
Some successful researchers have joined us from similar backgrounds at other firms. Others have joined from related fields or directly from academia and have thrived with hands on guidance from our large team of experienced portfolio managers and researchers. Our most exceptional team members combine strong technical skills and a passion for problem solving with an intense curiosity about financial markets and human behavior.
DESIRABLE CANDIDATES
- MS or PhD candidates in finance, computer science, mathematics, physics, or other quantitative discipline
- 3-7 years of experience in alpha driven quantitative research for equities, futures, fixed income, credit, and/or FX
- Strong analytical and quantitative skills
- Demonstrated ability to conduct independent research utilizing large data sets
- Programming in any of the following: C++, Java, C#, MATLAB, R, Python, or Perl
- Detail-oriented
- Willing to take ownership of his/her work, working both independently and within a small team
We’re looking for exceptional colleagues with unparalleled passion. If you’d like your resume to stand out, tell us about your exceptional personal achievements, even if they have nothing to do with finance. Of course we love to hear more about specific engineering or data projects that you’ve worked outside of school, or as part of your curriculum. If you’re proud of the work you did we want to hear about it. In addition to exceptional statisticians and engineers, we work with talented musicians, writers, mathematicians, and founders of non-profits; we’d love to learn more about what excites you.
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