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In this role, you’ll focus on refining features, designing better models, and advancing core research pipelines. You’ll collaborate closely with other researchers and engineers to push the boundaries of what’s possible in highly competitive electronic markets.\nThe ideal candidate is a curious, rigorous thinker with a strong technical foundation and a bias toward empirical validation. You enjoy working with data, building systems to understand it, and using that understanding to drive performance.\nResponsibilities:\nAs a Quantitative Researcher, you will:\nDesign, test, and refine features and model architectures to improve prediction and execution performance\nDevelop and improve research pipelines and tools for large-scale strategy simulation and optimization on a cutting-edge compute cluster\nConduct deep-dive analyses of market data, live strategy behavior, and model outputs to guide iterative improvements\nStay up-to-date on advances in quantitative methods, ML, and optimization - applying new insights to real-world challenges\nWhy This Role Is Unique:\nResearch First - This role is research-heavy - you’ll be focused on signal improvement, model fidelity, and hypothesis generation, not plumbing infrastructure or devops.\nBreadth and Depth - You’ll work at every level of the alpha stack: from feature design and statistical modeling to optimizer tuning \nDirect Feedback Loop - We deploy and iterate quickly. 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