Quantitative Researcher

A little bit about us…
With offices in London, Sydney and New York, Epoch Capital has attracted a world class team of portfolio managers, traders, developers, quants & operational staff. Since 2007, our success has been built on identifying and capturing opportunities that are hard to predict, leading us to create a diversified portfolio of trading strategies. Epoch’s culture of teamwork fosters an environment where new ideas are constantly shared, developed and implemented.

Why work with us?
The Mid Frequency Trading Team manages a fully automated system, trading a broad range of assets across global markets. The framework facilitates both live trading and historical backtesting and includes the data processing pipelines and research tools necessary for new alpha research. The codebase is predominantly in Python leveraging a number of industry standard libraries for data handling.
The primary responsibility for this role is research and development of MFTs commodities futures trading strategies. The candidate will also have the opportunity to contribute to the broader MFT strategy research - including other futures, Spot FX, Options and Equities.

What your main responsibilities will be…

• Research new signals and implement them within our framework.
• Assisting the development team with the rollout of new or improved signals
• Oversight of rollout to ensure the research is faithfully implemented.
• Analysis of strategies in production and diagnosing problems and/or suggesting improvements.
• Identify changes in market conditions when strategies underperform and research improvements.
• Identify new markets where commodities trading strategies can be deployedActively engage and participate in the continuous refinement of the wider trading desks’ strategies.
• Working with the development team to ensure that data is of acceptable quality and stored appropriately.
• Provide guidance and mentorship of wider team on commodities trading