We are looking for an experienced credit investment specialist to develop strategies and lead our Quantitative Credit Team. In this role, you will be responsible for leading a team of researchers in researching, implementing, and trading profitable credit based systematic strategies within Trexquant’s core product. Your work will expand our existing systematic credit program and proliferate credit as a meaningful asset class in our proven quantitative processes.

Responsibilities

• Expand our existing program by further identifying data useful for building and backtesting proposed credit trading strategies, along with the pipelines to feed datasets into our research and trading platforms.

• Work with the development team to improve accuracy, robustness, and speed of our platform in simulating and trading proposed credit based strategies.

• Develop credit based strategies and partner with the execution and financing teams to optimize execution of strategies, harmonizing with existing investments and asset classes.

• Align with the risk team to establish monitoring and controls for credit specific risk exposures as well as capital allocation among our incumbent strategies.

• Lead the Quant Credit Team to continually add, enhance and monitor credit alphas for the ongoing profitability and scale of the team’s strategies.

• Regularly present to senior management to collaborate and align quantitative credit research with overall trading and investment strategies.

Requirements

• 5+ years of experience in researching and trading quantitative credit based strategies.

• Experience managing or leading a team of quant researchers.

• Strong quantitative skills.

• Proficiency in Python.

• Bachelor's, Master’s, or Ph.D. degrees in Mathematics, Statistical Modeling, Computer Science or other related STEM fields.

Benefits

• Competitive salary, plus bonus based on individual and company performance.

• Collaborative, casual, and friendly work environment while solving the hardest problems in the financial markets.

• PPO Health, dental and vision insurance premiums fully covered for you and your dependents.