Wealthfront

Let us optimize your finances and take the work out of banking, investing, borrowing, and planning.

Quantitative Researcher – Investments

Financial Planning and AnalysisFinancial Planning and AnalysisFull TimeRemoteTeam 201-500Since 2011H1B SponsorCompany SiteLinkedIn

Location

California

Posted

5 days ago

Salary

$185K - $211K / year

Bachelor Degree4 yrs expEnglishPythonSQL

Job Description

• Build reproducible backtests for proposed models / algorithms • Contribute to the deployment and implementation of differentiated investment services • Contribute to the development of infrastructure for modelling, optimization, backtesting, analytics, and data management • Investigate, identify, and acquire internal / external datasets • Collaborate with other teams (engineering, product, design, marketing, and compliance) to commercialize new products and ongoing enhancements to existing products • Promote our products by providing data and authoring blog posts and white papers

Job Requirements

  • Bachelors or Masters Degree in mathematics, statistics, economics or computer science (or a related quantitative discipline). If you have done or are thinking about doing a PhD someday, chances are you’ll love our team
  • 4+ years of experience in systematic or quantitative investing or a higher degree in a quantitative field
  • Experience analyzing complex data and building statistical models
  • Proficiency in Python or R (you have written massive amounts of code, employing revision control, and testing)
  • Competency in SQL preferred

Benefits

  • medical
  • vision
  • dental
  • 401K plan
  • generous time off
  • parental leave
  • wellness reimbursements
  • professional development
  • employee investing discount
  • and more!

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