Job Description
We are looking for an experienced credit investment specialist to develop strategies and lead our Quantitative Credit Team. In this role, you will be responsible for leading a team of researchers in researching, implementing, and trading profitable credit based systematic strategies within Trexquant's core product. Your work will expand our existing systematic credit program and proliferate credit as a meaningful asset class in our proven quantitative processes.
Responsibilities
- Expand our existing program by further identifying data useful for building and backtesting proposed credit trading strategies, along with the pipelines to feed datasets into our research and trading platforms.
- Work with the development team to improve accuracy, robustness, and speed of our platform in simulating and trading proposed credit based strategies.
- Develop credit 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 credit specific risk exposures as well as capital allocation among our incumbent strategies.
- Lead the Quant Credit Team to continually add, enhance and monitor credit alphas for the ongoing profitability and scale of the team's strategies.
- Regularly present to senior management to collaborate and align quantitative credit research with overall trading and investment strategies.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience in researching and trading quantitative credit based strategies.
- Experience managing or leading a team of quant researchers.
- Strong quantitative skills.
- Proficiency in Python.
- Bachelor's, Master's, or Ph.D. degrees in Mathematics, Statistical Modeling, Computer Science or other related STEM fields.
Benefits
- Competitive salary, plus bonus based on individual and company performance.
- Collaborative, casual, and friendly work environment while solving the hardest problems in the financial markets.
- PPO Health, dental and vision insurance premiums fully covered for you and your dependents.
Trexquant is an Equal Opportunity Employer
Key skill Required
- Python
- Capital Allocation
- Computer Science
- Development
- Financial Markets
- Insurance
- Management
- Mathematics
- Profitability
- Quantitative Skills
- Research
- Robustness
- Science
- Senior Management
- Statistical Modeling
- Trading
- Vision Insurance
