Quantitative Research Analyst

We are currently seeking a highly driven, well organized, and motivated candidate to join our team. SCM offers the opportunity to work in person, remotely or in a hybrid work environment. Remote work opportunities are not available to residents of New York City or to residents of Colorado.

Primary Responsibilities

• Utilize your analytical and quantitative skills, market knowledge and intuition to develop and implement automated statistical trading models.


• Participate in all aspects of research and trading model development, including generating research ideas, building and analyzing data sets, conducting statistical data analysis and implementing quantitative production trading models.

Requirements

• A bachelors or advanced degree in a field providing a background in advanced statistical analysis of large data sets (includes, but is not limited to, economics, finance, statistics, mathematics or computer science).


• Programming experience, ideally including R, C++ and/or Python.


• Strong working knowledge of regression, time series analysis and other statistical techniques.


• Experience building, organizing and analyzing large data sets is preferred.


• The ability to comprehend and synthesize academic literature in finance, economics and statistics.


• Strong financial market interest.


• The ability to simplify and effectively communicate complex concepts.