Research Analyst

Cubist Systematic Strategies, LLC, has an opening for a Research Analyst in New York, New York. This position is hybrid; may work at home up to 1 day per week, as permitted. Conduct and manage quantitative finance alpha research from diverse data sources to provide accurate stock return forecasts. Build and implement profitable quantitative equity investment models. Assist with generating trading strategies. Conduct research on and analyze large data sets. Gather investment thesis and author quantitative research reports and present research results to management and other team members. Collaborate with other members of the team (including developers and other researchers) in the full life-cycle R&D process from idea generation, data preparation, model building, implementation and production deployment. Play significant role in the design, building and maintenance of the teams research and trading infrastructure and systems. Must possess at least a masters degree or its equivalent in Computational Finance, Financial Engineering, Statistics, Mathematics, Operations Research, Computer Science or a related STEM field and at least 5 years of experience as a Research Analyst, Data Scientist, or in a related role supporting a systematic investing business in a financial services institution. Must also possess the following: at least 5 years of experience programming/utilizing SQL and Python; at least 5 years of experience performing statistical analysis of historical data gathered from financial markets to build quantitative models; at least 5 years of experience conducting independent research utilizing large data sets; at least 5 years of experience building processes and technology to ingest, tag, and clean datasets; and at least 5 years of experience working with financial and alternative data supporting a systematic investing business. Approximately 40 hours per week; the salary range for this position is $153,000 to $300,000 per year Any person who is interested in this position may apply to the following for consideration:Send your resume to [email protected] and reference Job Code Z032026X.