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Lead Alpha Researcher at IMC

Department: Trading ServicesEducation: education_required

Location
London, England
Level
lead/mgmt
Posted

Description

IMC is hiring a Lead Alpha Researcher for its Systematic Equities team in London. The role leads European alpha research, manages and develops researchers, defines the research agenda, and drives the discovery, validation, and production deployment of alpha signals and predictive models. Responsibilities include improving production trading performance, establishing research best practices, and developing scalable research tools and modelling frameworks. The position requires a quantitative master’s or PhD, at least five years of systematic trading and alpha-development experience, a record of profitable production signals, research leadership experience, strong machine-learning and statistical knowledge, and Python programming skills.

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