Strategist; Cross Asset Derivatives

The Role

We are seeking highly qualified and a talented Quantitative Strategist to support across Emerging Markets Equity Derivatives, Macro and Delta One strategies, which includes Fixed Income, Index Rebalance & Special situations strategies amongst others.

What you’ll do 

As a Strategist, you will support portfolio managers and traders in building out pricing tools, rationalizing risk and analytics and developing a centralized model library for valuation. You will be helping with:

• Equity product modelling and risk representation
• Rates curve calibration and integration, including NDF
• D1: Dividend, funding and rates parameter modelling and calibration
• Development of agentic coding workflows and end-user enablement
• Portfolio Manager led pricing and analytics problems
• Strategy design and back-testing analytics
• Risk engine and platform development

What you’ll bring
What you need:

• Strong Python skills
• Experience developing equity or rates derivative models in enterprise settings
• Experience in risk platform application and understanding
• Experience working with PM, quant and research functions
• Experience with Delta-1 equity business preferred
• Experience with agentic coding practices
• Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal
• Strong ownership experience and a track record of delivering results

Who we are  
Schonfeld is a global multi-manager hedge fund that strives to deliver industry-leading risk-adjusted returns for our investors. We leverage both internal and external portfolio manager teams around the world, seeking to capitalize on inefficiencies and opportunities within the markets. We draw from decades of experience and a significant investment in proprietary technology, infrastructure and risk analytics to invest across four main strategies: Quant, Tactical, Fundamental Equity and Discretionary Macro & Fixed Income.

Our Culture
At Schonfeld, we’ll invest in you. Attracting and retaining top talent is at the heart of what we do, because we believe that exceptional outcomes begin with exceptional people. We foster a culture where talent is empowered to continually learn, innovate and pursue ambitious goals. We are teamwork-oriented, collaborative and encourage ideas—at all levels—to be shared. As an organization committed to investing in our people, we provide learning and educational offerings and opportunities to make an impact. We encourage community through internal networks, external partnerships and service initiatives that promote inclusion and purpose beyond the firm’s walls.

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The Role

We are looking for a hands-on STRAT / forward-deployed engineer to embed with our multi strategy business. The candidate will sit on the trading floor, shipping full-stack tools that power research, risk, and execution across strategies such as index rebalance, delta-1 and
long/short equities. The role will be based in our Hong Kong office.

What you’ll do

• Automate PM/analyst processes— alpha signals, portfolio construction, real-time risk, P&L, scenario and stress analytics.
• Help build out our proprietary research, portfolio construction and risk management platform.
• Build end-to-end products: data ingestion, micro-service back-ends, and lightweight front-ends for visualization and workflow.
• Own SDLC: requirements gathering, architecture, coding, testing, deployment, and ongoing support in a fast-moving trading environment.
• Balance long-horizon platform projects with fast tactical asks; break down roadblocks and deliver incremental value quickly.
• Use our proprietary AI setup to create differentiated analytics; help extend the AI platform.
• Maintain strong stakeholder communications across technology, trading, quant research and risk.
• The minimum internship period is 6 months, and the role may be converted to a full-time position based on strong performance.

What you’ll bring

What you’ll need:

• 2–3 years buy- or sell-side experience as a STRAT, quant dev, or forward-deployed engineer.
• Solid grasp of trade-lifecycle and investment management workflows; exposure to equities preferred.
• Proven coding expertise; comfortable across the stack (data wrangling, REST/GraphQL APIs, Python, simple JS/React or Dash front-ends).
• STEM Master degree or Ph.D. with strong quantitative/problem-solving skills; ML/AI experience a plus.
• Self-starter who thrives in a high-tempo setting, communicates clearly and manages stakeholders effectively.
• Willing to be based in Hong Kong (relocation support provided if needed). 

Our Culture 

The firm’s ethos is embedded in our people. ‘Talent is our strategy’ is our mantra and drives how we approach all initiatives at the firm. We believe our success is because of our people,
so putting our talent above all else is our top priority. Schonfeld strives to create an environment where our people can thrive. We foster a teamwork oriented, collaborative environment where ideas at any level are encouraged and shared. The development and advancement of our talent is honed through interactions with each other, learning & educational offerings, and through opportunities to make impactful contributions. At Schonfeld, we strive to cultivate a sense of belonging throughout all of our employees with Diversity, Equity and Inclusion at the forefront of this mission. As a firm we are committed to creating a hiring process which is not only fair, but also welcoming and supportive. On a daily basis, our employees welcome diversity across identity, thought, people and views which serves as the foundation of our culture and success. You can learn more about our DEI initiatives here - Belonging @ Schonfeld.

Who we are

Schonfeld Strategic Advisors is a multi-manager platform that invests its capital with Internal and Partner portfolio managers, primarily on an exclusive or semi-exclusive basis, across quantitative, fundamental equity and tactical trading strategies. We have created a unique structure to provide global portfolio managers with autonomy, flexibility and support to best enable them to maximize the value of their businesses. Over the last 30 years, Schonfeld has successfully capitalized on inefficiencies and opportunities within the equity markets. We have developed and invested heavily in proprietary technology, infrastructure and risk analytics. Our portfolio exposure has expanded across the Americas, Europe and Asia as well as multiple asset classes and products.

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