Quant Researcher

• Role Summary: QI seeks to hire suitable candidates to be a part of the EPAT Content team
• About the team and its role in QI: * The EPAT Content team has former bankers, programmers, and academics who worked in financial firms, universities, and tech companies
• We have educational backgrounds in engineering, electronics, economics, and finance
• The common thread stringing all of us is an obsessive curiosity to learn more about quantitative finance
• * We are responsible for the technical content and maintaining the quality of lectures delivered by top professionals worldwide in the EPAT (a six-month course conducted over weekends
• You can check more about the course elsewhere on the website)
• * We want to hear from you if youre interested in and excited to be part of a growing firm

Responsibilities:

• * Create content and conduct lectures, courses, and workshops for financial and educational institutions in India and abroad
• * Assist in the resolution of doubts and queries faced by students in lectures on quant finance
• * Enhance the content and delivery (pedagogy) of existing lectures * Write technical blogs on different aspects of quant trading
• * Supervise/evaluate the assignments and issues faced by course participants
• * Resolve queries on topics about statistics, machine learning, econometrics, Python, and other facets of quant trading
• * Contribute to research in the domain via writing and reviewing articles, manuscripts, and books connected to quant finance

Qualifications and other aspects (The points in italics are prerequisites)

• * 4-6 years of full-time work experience (industry experience is necessary)
• * Completed a Doctorate or Master s in engineering, statistics, computer science, finance, or other quantitative fields from a reputed university
• * Experience in knowledge delivery would be highly preferred
• * Expertise in the data science stack of at least one of Python and R (Python preferred)
• * Good grasp of math, statistics, and machine learning (in the context of financial markets)
• * Excellent writing, and speaking skills
• * Extensive knowledge of trading in the financial markets
• * Knowledge of financial instruments across asset classes
• * Ability to learn and digest new technical ideas/tools and implement them
• * Ability to work on multiple tasks and prioritize
• * Work over some weekends to take lectures or provide assistance to faculty during EPAT lectures