Head of Systematic Futures Team

We are looking for an experienced systematic futures quantitative researcher to lead our Futures Team. In this role, you will be responsible for leading a team of researchers in researching, implementing, and trading profitable futures based systematic strategies within Trexquant’s core product. Your work will expand our existing systematic futures program as a meaningful asset class in our proven quantitative processes.

Responsibilities

• Expand our current futures effort by further identifying data and signals useful for building and backtesting various futures strategies.
• Work with the development team to improve accuracy, robustness, and speed of our platform in simulating and trading proposed futures based strategies.
• Design and Implement futures based strategies and partner with the execution and financing teams to optimize execution of strategies, harmonizing with existing investments and asset classes.
• Align with the risk team to establish monitoring and controls for futures specific risk exposures as well as capital allocation among our incumbent strategies.
• Regularly present to senior management to collaborate and align quantitative credit research with overall trading and investment strategies.
• 5+ years of experience in researching and trading quantitative futures based strategies.
• Bachelor's, Master’s, or Ph.D. degrees in Mathematics, Statistical Modeling, Computer Science or other related STEM fields.
• Proven leadership experience in managing a team of quantitative researchers.
• Strong quantitative skills.
• Proficiency in Python.
• Competitive salary plus bonus based on individual and company performance.
• Collaborative, casual, and friendly work environment.
• PPO Health, dental and vision insurance premiums fully covered for you and your. dependents.
• Pre-tax commuter benefits.
• Weekly company meals.

Trexquant is an Equal Opportunity Employer.

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