About Man Group
Man Group is a global alternative investment management firm focused on pursuing outperformance for sophisticated clients via our Systematic, Discretionary and Solutions offerings. Powered by talent and advanced technology, our single and multi-manager investment strategies are underpinned by deep research and span public and private markets, across all major asset classes, with a significant focus on alternatives. Man Group takes a partnership approach to working with clients, establishing deep connections and creating tailored solutions to meet their investment goals and those of the millions of retirees and savers they represent.
Headquartered in London, we manage $253.6 billion* and operate across multiple offices globally. Man Group plc is listed on the London Stock Exchange under the ticker EMG.LN and is a constituent of the FTSE 250 Index. Further information can be found at www.man.com
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* As at 30 June 2026
- Experience: up to 10 years in quantitative strategy research, preferably within established CTA / systematic macro teams at leading hedge funds or proprietary trading firms.
- Research focus: Develop systematic strategies across global futures and liquid macro markets, including equities, rates, FX and commodities; open to any trading frequency.
- Macro expertise: Demonstrate an in-depth understanding of macro strategies—such as trend following, carry, value and macroeconomic signals—including their economic rationale, return drivers, regime dependence and failure modes.
- Track record: Experience taking strategies from research into live trading, with rigorous out-of-sample testing and realistic treatment of transaction costs, futures rolls and implementation constraints.
- Portfolio construction: Strong understanding of volatility targeting, cross-asset correlations, risk allocation, leverage and drawdown management.
- Technical skills: Strong Python, time-series modelling and statistical research skills, with the ability to translate macroeconomic hypotheses into robust, testable trading rules
Inclusion, Work-Life Balance and Benefits at Man Group
You'll thrive in our working environment that champions equality of opportunity. Your unique perspective will contribute to our success, joining a workplace where inclusion is fundamental and deeply embedded in our culture and values. Through our external and internal initiatives, partnerships and programmes, you'll find opportunities to grow, develop your talents, and help foster an inclusive environment for all across our firm and industry. Learn more at www.man.com/diversity.
You'll have opportunities to make a difference through our charitable and global initiatives, while advancing your career through professional development, and with flexible working arrangements available too. Like all our people, you'll receive two annual 'Mankind' days of paid leave for community volunteering.
Our comprehensive benefits package includes competitive holiday entitlements, pension/401k, life and long-term disability coverage, group sick pay, enhanced parental leave and long-service leave. Depending on your location, you may also enjoy additional benefits such as private medical coverage, discounted gym membership options and pet insurance.
Equal Employment Opportunity Policy
Man Group provides equal employment opportunities to all applicants and all employees without regard to race, color, creed, national origin, ancestry, religion, disability, sex, gender identity and expression, marital status, sexual orientation, military or veteran status, age or any other legally protected category or status in accordance with applicable federal, state and local laws.
Man Group is a Disability Confident Committed employer; if you require help or information on reasonable adjustments as you apply for roles with us, please contact [email protected].
Skills Required
- Advanced degree in Computer Science, Statistics, Mathematics, Finance/Economics or related quantitative field from a top-tier institution
- 2-5 years experience researching and live trading alpha signals for futures in Chinese market
- Strong programming skills analyzing large and complex data with statistical tools (Python)
- Excellent quantitative skills from training in econometrics or statistics and extensive empirical research experience
- Proficiency in risk parity portfolio construction, volatility modeling, derivatives and leverage instruments; knowledge of macro and cross-asset dynamics in China
- Confident communicator able to explain complex ideas to internal and external stakeholders
- Practical exposure to LLMs and AI agents
- Background in core ML theory (optimization, probabilistic modeling, deep learning architectures)
- Strong publication record or thesis work in ML/AI (NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, ACL etc.)
- Hands-on experience in fine-tuning large-scale foundation models and ML-based model implementation
- Experience with cloud environments and multi-machine CPU/GPU setups
- Prior experience in the investment field (a plus)
What We Do
Man Group is a global active investment management firm, which runs $127 billion* of client capital in liquid and private markets, managed by investment specialists based around the world. Headquartered in London, the firm has 15 international offices and operates across multiple jurisdictions. Our business has five specialist investment engines, which represent the range of our capabilities: Man AHL, Man Numeric, Man GLG, Man FRM and Man GPM. These engines house numerous investment teams, working collaboratively within the framework of Man Group, with a high degree of investment autonomy. Each team benefits from the strength and resources of the firm’s single operating platform, enabling their primary focus to be seeking to generate alpha for clients. The teams invest across a diverse range of strategies and asset classes with highly specialised approaches, with long only and alternative strategies run on a discretionary and quantitative basis in single and multi-manager formats. Our clients are at the heart of everything we do and we engage in close dialogue with our investors as strategic partners, to understand their particular needs and constraints. Man Group’s investment teams are empowered and supported by our institutional infrastructure and technology, which aims to facilitate the efficient exposure to markets and effective collaboration across the organisation.
