Their product distinguishes itself from competing offerings with its sophistication and rigorous mathematical underpinnings, so strong research is at the very core of their activities.  Their uncompromising approach has resulted in a product that is acknowledged by their many institutional clients to be the best in its class. Building on this foundation, they are expanding aggressively, both in their main software offerings and in new areas of quantitative trading. Quants will be performing fundamental research in topics relevant to high-frequency trading, including execution optimization, risk management and trading strategies. They will participate actively in the development and implementation of results from their research.

At an absolute minimum, a successful candidate must:

• Be very smart, curious and interested in quantitative finance.
• Have solid graduate-level mathematical training. We prefer at least a master’s degree in physics, mathematics, engineering or the physical sciences. This isn't the place to be if you've forgotten your calculus or aren't ready to answer statistics questions.
• Be an excellent programmer with strong experience developing in modern, object-oriented languages like Java, C++ or C#. Even more important, enjoy programming. Their critical advantage is the ability to deploy trading algorithms better and faster than anyone else, so we don't have a strong divide between research and development. Expect detailed technical questions covering design, syntax and data structures.
• Have excellent technical writing and communication skills.

In addition, they look for skills that will apply specifically to their area of finance and tool-set:

• Professional experience building, refining and analyzing equity trading algorithms
• Experience with very high-frequency financial data
• Professional-level knowledge of Java.

Note that they do not do any work with asset-backed derivatives; experience with structured products is by no means a disqualification, but it isn't something we pay for.

Please send your resumes to Jesse Marrus; jmarrus@streetadvisorgroup.com or apply directly from this page.