Quant Researcher – HFT/MFT Trading | Leading Financial Services Firm
Location: Gurugram
Our client is a leading player in the financial services domain, with deep expertise in HFT and MFT trading across global markets. As part of their next growth phase, they are looking to hire a Quant Researcher to partner closely with Portfolio Managers and Traders on alpha generation and strategy development.
Key Responsibilities
- Research, design, and develop statistically robust alpha signals leveraging market microstructure, fundamental, and alternative datasets
- Build and maintain predictive models, factor libraries, and optimization frameworks
- Conduct rigorous back testing using scalable, production-grade research pipelines
- Analyse slippage, market impact, fill ratios, order-book behaviour, execution latency, and related microstructure features
- Enhance execution algorithms via A/B testing, regression analysis, and microstructure modelling
- Work extensively with tick-by-tick data, level-2/ level-3 order book data, and event-driven datasets
- Perform exploratory data analysis to uncover patterns, anomalies, and model failure modes
Key Requirements
- Bachelor’s/Master’s from Tier-1 institutions (IIT/ISI/BITS or equivalent) with strong academic performance
- 2–5 years of experience as a Quant Researcher / Quant Analyst / Alpha Researcher in an algo trading, prop trading, HFT, or MFT environment
- Strong programming skills in Python and common scientific libraries (NumPy, Pandas, SciPy, scikit-learn)
- Solid command of statistics, probability, time-series modelling, regression, and econometric methods
- Experience handling large-scale datasets, including high-frequency tick and order-book data
- Hands-on exposure to alpha modelling, execution research, slippage analysis, and modern backtesting frameworks
Please note that due to the high number of applications only shortlisted candidates will be contacted. If you do not hear from us in the next 5 business days, we regret to inform you that your application for this position was unsuccessful.
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