Quant Researcher

Senior Quant Researcher | High Frequency Delta 1

Eclipse Trading is a leading proprietary trading firm. Founded in 2007, we have over 110 employees across 4 office locations – Hong Kong (our HQ), Sydney, Shanghai and Chicago. Our trading expertise and strategies are deployed across several markets globally, focusing on various products including equity derivatives, delta one, ETFs, commodity derivatives, and cryptocurrency. Technology is inextricably linked to our trading strategies, creating an environment powered by intellectual curiosity, problem solving, and innovation.

At Eclipse, we process hundreds of millions of data points per day, and the size and variety of data always grows. Our quantitative research team is based in our headquarters in Hong Kong, working where the decisions are made and have an opportunity to contribute directly to the bottom line.

The successful candidate will use our large amounts of internally and externally generated time series data and convert these to signals that help drive our trading and algorithms. The initial focus will be on predicting stock and futures short term moves.

Responsibilities and Duties

• Process and analyse large datasets to detect hidden signals and patterns in order to predict future events
• Perform quantitative analysis and modelling on the market to improve current trading strategies and develop new ones
• Take an idea from inception, through to detailed research, coding, and testing, and ultimately to production release
• Work independently yet closely with traders and IT staff

What you offer

• Masters or PhD in a quantitative discipline e.g. Statistics, Physics, Mathematics, Signal Processing, Machine Learning, etc
• 5+ years experience in analysing real world data in a first class research environment.  Exposure to a variety of datasets would be an advantage. Experience in using machine learning to forecast sequence or time series data preferred
• 3+ years of financial markets experience working directly with trading desks
• Experience in high frequency Delta 1 trading, in equities or futures, preferred
• Experience working with low latency, real time systems preferred
• Very strong skills in writing production code in an OO programming language (prefer C++), and a statistical language (prefer Python), with understanding of software development workflows required
• Excellent communication skills
• Good command of spoken and written English

What we offer

• Dynamic and collaborative work environment
• A flat management structure, where everyone's voice is valued
• Work life balance within a multi-cultural environment