Millennium
Quantitative Researcher
$160K–$250K
New York, New York · On-site · Full-time · Posted Jul 30, 2026
- Experience
- Experience in quantitative research, systematic investing, hedge funds, asset management, or related research environments; no years specified.
- Education
- Advanced degree in an applied quantitative field; exceptional candidates with a Bachelor’s or Master’s degree or equivalent industry experience will also be considered.
About the job
Conduct quantitative research and develop, implement, and refine systematic investment strategies across asset classes and instruments, from idea generation through live monitoring.
What you'll do
- Develop and test investment ideas using financial intuition, statistical learning, and large datasets; analyze robustness, costs, liquidity, and risk.
- Build research infrastructure, including data pipelines, backtesting tools, and portfolio analytics.
- Work with portfolio managers, researchers, and technologists to productionize strategies and refine live models.
What they ask for
- Advanced degree in an applied quantitative field; exceptional candidates with a Bachelor’s or Master’s degree or equivalent industry experience will also be considered.
- Excellent Python skills and ability to build clean, scalable research code.
- Strong grounding in statistics, probability, optimization, and empirical modeling.
- Experience with large financial datasets, market data, and reproducible research workflows.
Nice to have
- PhD; experience in QIS, systematic equities, cross-asset or multi-asset derivatives research, especially tail hedging.
- Experience with machine learning, trading cost analysis, or intraday strategy research; familiarity with derivatives implementation.
Pay
$160,000 to $250,000 USD base salary
Tools
Python, pandas, NumPy, SciPy, Polars, scikit-learn
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