Quant Analyst - Internship

• Location: We are a remote-first company that offers a limited number of remote positions for this job profile.
• Time Commitment: This internship requires a part-time commitment of 20 hours per week.
• Internship Duration: Part-time internships extend for a 12-week period.

Responsibilities for this position:

• Quantitative skills should include probability, statistics and derivative pricing theories
• Programming and delivering bespoke solutions
• Monitor project progress by tracking requirements elicitation and issue resolution activities
• Actively participates in project kick-off meetings
• Manages discussions between Business SMEs, End Users, Model Development Team, business analysts, and the Implementation Team
• Create detailed business requirements documents reflecting the data, quantitative and analytical needs of key business and technology initiatives
• Helping develop new algorithms and extend/improve existing ones
• Working directly with technologists/traders/quants to maintain an industry leading position in an ever more electronic environment

Desired skills for quant analyst include:

• Python
• SQL
• C++
• Java
• Rust
• JS
• Financial markets
• Statistics
• Decision trees
• Economic movements and trends
• Market risk management
• Portfolio management concepts

Desired experience for quant analyst includes:

• Pursuing undergraduate or graduate Computer Science degree with at least 2 years programming experience
• Experience in high-frequency or algorithmic trading
• Ability to work in high-pressure and time-sensitive situations
• Ability to work in South Asian time zones
• Ability to solve problems and to explain the ideas that underlie them to colleagues
• History of independent, high-performance work being a strong contributor to a team
• Understanding of Equity products, structured derivatives