ABOUT CUBIST
Cubist Systematic Strategies is one of the world’s premier investment firms. The firm deploys systematic, computer-driven trading strategies across multiple liquid asset classes, including equities, futures and foreign exchange. The core of our effort is rigorous research into a wide range of market anomalies, fueled by our unparalleled access to a wide range of publicly available data sources.
RESPONSIBILITIES
- Developing trading and research infrastructure
- Building high-performance components for both live trading and simulation
- Developing tooling to handle aspects of quant trading (e.g. data pipelines, modeling, trade execution)
- Distributed computing focus
- Maintaining and updating the platform, ensuring its stability, robustness, and security
- Troubleshooting and resolving any systems related issues and handling the release of code fixes and enhancements
REQUIREMENTS
- A highly skilled technologist with quantitative skills
- Bachelors or Masters in computer science or other quantitative discipline
- 5+ years of professional software development experience
- Previous exposure to quant finance a plus
- Strong architectural design skills and understanding of performance tradeoffs
- Strong programming skills in Python or Golang on a Linux stack
- Expertise with basic data science ecosystem (Pandas or Polars) and scientific computing stack (NumPy, SciPy)
- Strong project management skills, i.e. the ability to manage multiple tasks and deadlines in a fast-paced environment
- Ability to work cooperatively with all levels of staff and to thrive in a team-oriented environment
- Commitment to the highest ethical standards
Top Skills
What We Do
Point72 Asset Management is a global firm led by Steven Cohen that invests in multiple asset classes and strategies worldwide. Resting on more than a quarter-century of investing experience, we seek to be the industry’s premier asset manager through delivering superior risk-adjusted returns, adhering to the highest ethical standards, and offering the greatest opportunities to the industry’s brightest talent. We’re inventing the future of finance by revolutionizing how we develop our people and how we use data to shape our thinking. For more information, visit www.Point72.com/working-here.
