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This is a senior hands-on research and leadership role focused on developing and scaling alpha generation, predictive modelling, and machine learning capabilities across our global equities business.\nYou will lead a key part of the European alpha research team, managing researchers and driving a portfolio of high-impact alpha initiatives from idea generation through production deployment. You will work as part of a closely coordinated global alpha initiative, helping to set priorities, develop researchers, elevate research quality, and scale high-impact ideas across regions.\nWorking closely with traders, researchers, and developers globally, you will drive the discovery, validation, and deployment of new sources of alpha that improve production trading performance.\nOur Systematic Equities business benefits from significant advantages in market access, execution quality, global reach, and technology. The continued growth of machine learning and data-driven research creates opportunities to unlock these advantages and tackle some of the most impactful problems in systematic trading.\nIMC competes and wins as a team, with open idea sharing and collaboration across disciplines, desks, and offices.\nResponsibilities\nTake a leading role in research, development, and deployment of alpha signals and predictive models, contributing to a globally coordinated alpha effort across equities markets.\nManage, grow, and develop a core part of the European alpha research team.\nHelp define and prioritise the alpha research agenda.\nDeliver measurable improvements in production trading performance through robust research, disciplined validation, and close collaboration with trading teams.\nEstablish and uphold best practices for research methodology, validation, reproducibility, and deployment across the alpha research team.\nFoster a research culture built on scientific rigour, intellectual curiosity, open idea sharing, and continuous improvement.\nDrive the development of scalable research tools, datasets, and modelling frameworks that increase team productivity.\nSkills & Experience\nMaster’s or PhD in Machine Learning, Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science, Engineering, Physics, or another quantitative discipline.\n5+ years of experience developing systematic, intraday horizon trading strategies, predictive models, and alpha signals.\nDemonstrated track record of generating profitable, value-adding, and orthogonal signals in a production trading environment.\nExperience managing, mentoring, or leading researchers in a high-performance research environment.\nDemonstrated ability to influence research direction, prioritise opportunities, and drive impactful research outcomes.\nStrong practical experience applying machine learning techniques to prediction problems, with a clear understanding of overfitting risks and robust model validation.\nDeep understanding of statistics, experimental design, hypothesis testing, and research methodology.\nStrong programming skills in Python.\nExcellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to work effectively across research, trading, engineering, and global office locations.\n\nAbout Us\nIMC is a research-driven trading firm where quantitative modeling, machine learning, and engineering shape how modern markets are traded. A stabilizing force in markets since 1989, we provide liquidity across trading venues, delivering the best outcome in value and risk management to investors. Using our own technology and capital, we build proprietary systems and algorithms that operate across global markets. 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