Verition Fund Management LLC (“Verition”) is a multi-strategy, multi-manager hedge fund founded in 2008. Verition focuses on global investment strategies including Global Credit, Global Convertible, Volatility & Capital Structure Arbitrage, Event-Driven Investing, Equity Long/Short & Capital Markets Trading, and Global Quantitative Trading.
We are seeking a Quantitative Researcher to join a systematic Equities team in London. The team’s approach is unique, working at the intersection of the systematic and fundamental investment processes, with a strong track record of alpha-generation. This is a front-office role, you will be involved in the whole investment process with a direct contribution into the team’s bottom line. You will be given the opportunity to steer the role in your preferred direction, as you focus more on the alpha-generation angle or on the infrastructure angle over time.
Responsibilities
- Help management and scaling-up of a quantamental, mid-frequency, equities portfolio
- Day-to-day oversight fo theproduction processes
- Research and develoment of new signals: including idea generation, data ingestion, research and trading
- Build-out of the systematic trading infrastructure
Required Qualifications
- 1-3 years as a Quantitative Researcher, Quantitative Developer, Data Analyst or Data Scientist
- Experience with equities and equities data (alternative data, market data, fundamental data)
- BSc / MSc / PhD in technical discipline from a top university
- Experience using Python in a production setting (expertise in Pandas, Numpy, Airflow…
Preferred Qualifications
- Exposure to the systematic trading process
- Experience with cloud infrastructure (AWS preferred) with working knowledge of multiple AWS services (S3, EC2, EKS, SQS, Redshift, IAM, ...)
- Experience working in a Linux environment
- DevOps tools: Airflow, Git, Jenkins, Docker, Kubernetes
- Big Data tools: e.g. Databricks, Snowflake, Redshift
- Exposure to the fundamental investment process (e.g. Data Analyst working alongside fundamental PMs)
- Experience with web-scraping
- Experience with execution, TCA and commercial risk-models
- Open to candidates from the buy-side (HF and asset managers), sell-side (Equity research) and alternative data vendors
Top Skills
What We Do
Verition Fund Management LLC (“Verition”) is a multi-strategy, multi-manager hedge fund founded in 2008. Verition focuses on global investment strategies including Credit, Fixed Income & Macro, Convertible & Volatility Arbitrage, Event-Driven, Equity Long/Short & Capital Markets, and Quantitative Strategies.
Talent is the lifeline of Verition's success. Our culture encourages individuals to communicate openly across all strategies and businesses, and we believe there is alpha in integration. We strive to empower our Investment Professionals to act like business owners by making decisions based on a combination of rigorous analysis and an open, creative mindset. We have locations in Greenwich, CT, Norwalk, CT, New York, NY, London, UK, Singapore, Republic of Singapore, DIFC, Dubai (United Arab Emirates) and an affiliate office in Hong Kong (SAR), China. Verition has an institutional quality infrastructure with a team of over 500 investment/risk and non-investment professionals.
Verition is always seeking ambitious and entrepreneurial individuals that can be impactful and help to drive differentiated returns.
To learn more, please contact us for information at: [email protected]
