Quantitative Analyst

Job ID: 4016504397

Location: Austin, TX

Description:

Kershner Trading Group is a leading proprietary trading and technology firm, headquartered in Austin, Texas, with offices in midtown Manhattan, NY and Chicago, IL. We provide capital and infrastructure to in-house quantitative and discretionary traders. We currently have an opening in our Austin, Texas headquarters (remote work possible depending on experience) for a Quantitative Analyst.

**Responsibilities**
* Work with a team of Quantitative Researchers to research trading literature, generate ideas for algorithmic trading strategies, create features, analyze data and create intraday algorithmic trading strategies
* Provide input to software engineers in order to enhance our backtesting engine and data analysis tools for predictive model analysis
* Collaborate with the team in order to enhance the trading software, reduce slippage and increase model efficiency

**We Are Seeking An Individual With The Following Qualifications**
* A passion for analyzing large data sets in order to create high Sharpe ratio algorithmic strategies
* An interest in creating derivative features based on input features to better extract signals from noisy datasets
* Programming experience in Python (data science stack)
* Entrepreneurial spirit
* Knowledge of US stock market preferred
* An intuition for which for which features are relevant and for identifying errors in data or strategies

**Preferred Qualifications**
* Experience in C++ and Linux
* Experience with algorithmic trading

Remote: False

Min Salary: 0

Max Salary: 0

Salary Frequency: yearly

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URL: https://www.linkedin.com/jobs/view/4016504397

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