The Role:

• Partner with APAC Portfolio Management teams to understand and analyze portfolio risk across this geography
• Calibrate and manage risk guidelines for multiple teams, ensuring alignment with firm-wide risk appetite
• Collaborate with portfolio managers to resolve discrepancies in measured risk or address risk exposures out of their guidelines
• Conduct detailed portfolio/trade level analysis, across Rates, FX, Equities, and Commodities
• Present risk assessments to senior-risk and management concisely
• Maintain a detailed and proactive view of the current risk environment, and measure risk events’ potential impact on positions
• Develop reports/analyses for use by the wider risk team and portfolio management

What you'll bring:

• 3+ years of experience in trading, quantitative analysis, or market risk at either a buy or sell side institution
• Deep knowledge of FX and Rates (preference for EM specific experience)
• Ability to collaborate and work effectively within a global team
• Strong communication skills, with the ability to present complex risk concepts to senior management
• Advanced programming skills in Python
• Academic background in a quantitative discipline (e.g.: Mathematics, Finance, Physics)

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.

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 four trading strategies; quantitative, fundamental equity, tactical trading and discretionary macro & fixed income. 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 markets. We have developed and invested heavily in proprietary technology, infrastructure and risk analytics and continue to capitalize on new opportunities. In 2021 we launched our newest strategy, discretionary macro & fixed income as part of the continual growth of Schonfeld’s investible universe. Our portfolio exposure has expanded across the Americas, Europe and Asia as well as multiple asset classes and products. 

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The Role

We are seeking a talented and motivated Quantitative Developer to join our dynamic systematic trading team. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in software development, a passion for technology, and a keen interest in the financial industry. You will work closely with our quantitative researchers and fellow engineers to develop and maintain high-performance trading systems and tools.                                                           

What you’ll do 

- Design, develop, and maintain high-performance applications, including market data, order management systems, and trading systems.
- Optimize and enhance existing software to improve performance and scalability.
- Ensure the reliability and robustness of trading systems through rigorous testing and live monitoring.
- Participate in code reviews and contribute to best practices in software development.
- Stay up-to-date with the latest technologies and industry trends to drive innovation.

What you’ll bring

What you need:

• Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field.
• 5+ years of experience in software development within the financial industry, such as proprietary trading firms, hedge funds, or investment banks.
• Proficiency in programming languages such as C++ and Python, with solid experience in database technologies like SQL and KDB.
• Strong understanding of algorithms, data structures, and software design principles.
• Excellent problem-solving skills, attention to detail, and strong communication and teamwork abilities.

We’d love if you had:

• Experience with systematic trading system development.
• Experience with DevOps practices and continuous integration tools.
• Experience with risk reporting systems and troubleshooting pre/post-trade related issues.
• Experience with market data access via Reuters, Bloomberg, and exchange native protocols.
• Knowledge of cloud computing platforms (e.g., AWS, Azure).
• Knowledge of machine learning and data analysis techniques.
   

Who We Are 

Schonfeld Strategic Advisors is a global multi-strategy, multi-manager investment platform that harnesses the transformative power of people to perform in all market environments. Our dynamic culture inspires better outcomes for our team, our investors, and our partners. We aim to consistently deliver risk-adjusted returns, with people driving performance.

We specialize in four core strategies: Quantitative Trading, Fundamental Equity, Tactical Trading, and Discretionary Macro & Fixed Income. We capitalize on inefficiencies and opportunities within the markets, drawing from a significant investment in proprietary technology, infrastructure, and risk analytics.

We invest through internal portfolio managers and external partner funds, pursuing alignment among investors, investment professionals, and the firm. Our footprint spans 7 countries and 19 offices.

Our Culture

Talent is our strategy. We believe our success is because of our people, so putting our talent above all else is our top priority. 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 & educational offerings and opportunities to make an impact.

We foster a sense of belonging among all of our employees with Diversity, Equity and Inclusion at the forefront of this mission. Our employees value diversity across identity, thought, people and perspective which serves as the foundation of our culture. As a firm, we are committed to creating a hiring process that is fair, welcoming and supportive.

The Role

We are seeking a highly motivated individual with strong data or computer science skills to support and enhance our quantitative trading operations. The role combines real-time trading oversight, process automation, and cross-team collaboration, with room to grow into supervisory responsibilities in a regulated environment.

Key Responsibilities 

• Oversee quantitative trading activity during market hours, monitoring strategy performance, execution quality, and key risk or control thresholds.
• Maintain and enhance monitoring tools, dashboards, alerts, and operational runbooks to support safe, scalable trading operations.
• Coordinate and lead incident response, trade and position reconciliations, and issue resolution with internal teams and external counterparties.
• Support portfolio operations (including rebalancing and inventory or constraint management) using data-driven and automated workflows.
• Develop a strong understanding of market structure, broker services, and trading platforms, and collaborate with portfolio managers, engineers, and other stakeholders to turn recurring operational issues into durable process and system improvements.

Required Skills & Qualifications

• Bachelor’s, Master’s, or PhD degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Engineering, Finance, Economics, or a related quantitative field.
• 3+ years of relevant experience in the financial industry.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with a data-driven mindset.
• Proficiency in Python and familiarity with Linux-based environments.
• High attention to detail, strong communication skills, and the ability to operate in a fast-paced environment.
• Interest in taking on increasing levels of oversight and supervisory responsibility in a regulated trading environment. 

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.

The Role

We are seeking a talented and motivated Quantitative Researcher to join our dynamic systematic trading team. The ideal candidate will have a strong background in software development, a passion for technology, and a keen interest in the financial industry. You will work closely with our quantitative PMs, developers, and fellow researchers to develop and maintain high-performance trading systems and tools.

Key Responsibilities 

1. Engineer predictive features from high-frequency market data and unstructured alternative datasets for machine learning (ML) models. 
2. Develop research pipelines on a distributed compute cluster for tree-based models, deep learning, NLP/LLM, and related ML models. 
3. Design and prototype ML-driven alphas for cash equities, futures, and other liquid asset classes. 
4. Collaborate with researchers and developers to deploy signals into production, and perform iterative improvements based on real performance. 
5. Track academic and industry advances in machine learning and present actionable ideas to the team. 

Required Skills & Qualifications

1. MS or PhD in computer science, statistics, mathematics, or a related quantitative discipline from a top-tier university. 
2. Minimum 5 years of alpha-research experience at a leading buy-side firm or global bank. 
3. Expertise in tree-based models, deep learning, and NLP/LLM with strong understanding of probability and overfitting-control practices. 
4. Proficiency in python (and preferably C++ or similar), coupled with experience on distributed/hybrid compute environments. 
5. Excellent analytical, verbal, and written communication skills, with a proactive, ownership-driven mindset suited to the fast-paced trading floor.

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.

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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The Role 

The Quantitative Researcher will work directly with the portfolio manager, other quant researchers, and developers in a highly collaborative environment gaining exposure to all aspects of the investment process, including signal generation, portfolio construction and trade execution. You will leverage our top-notch research and trading infrastructure to develop and deploy models around alphas, execution, and risk management. The ideal candidate will be intellectually curious, love data and have a mindset of continuous improvement.

What you’ll do 

As a quantitative researcher, you will:

• Focus on research related to systematic macro trading strategies, mainly on rates/fixed-income assets.
• Contribute to building, maintenance, and continual improvement of production, trading, and execution.
• Evaluate new datasets for alpha potential, build analytics tools, improve existing signals and trading strategies.
• Collaborate with the portfolio manager directly, be a core contributor to the growing investment process.

What you’ll bring

What you need:

• 3-7 years experience in systematic trading in rates/fixed-income derivatives, bonds or futures from top tier funds or banks.
• Demonstrate ability to conduct independent alpha research, portfolio construction, curve building and asset pricing.
• Masters or PhD degree in mathematics, computer science, economics or other related discipline.
• Experience with managing and running risk is a plus.

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. In our agile environment, engineers are expected to self-organize and collaborate on the best way to solve problems, and they are collectively responsible for the entire team's delivery. Engineering teams are small and cross-functional, and value learning and knowledge sharing.

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 four trading strategies; quantitative, fundamental equity, tactical trading and discretionary macro & fixed income. 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 markets. We have developed and invested heavily in proprietary technology, infrastructure and risk analytics and continue to capitalize on new opportunities. In 2021 we launched our newest strategy, discretionary macro & fixed income as part of the continual growth of Schonfeld’s investible universe. Our portfolio exposure has expanded across the Americas, Europe and Asia as well as multiple asset classes and products.