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We are hiring a fully-remote Quantitative Equity Researcher to join our growing systematic product team. This is a strategic client-facing role that will split its time between publishing research notes, communicating findings to systematic hedge funds, and evaluating YipitData’s alternative data to develop and test new factors and signals. Your research directly supports product revenue through publishable research, client adoption, and retention. This is a remote-friendly opportunity that can be performed from anywhere in the U.S.
Job Responsibility:
Develop and communicate via research notes systematic equity signals derived from alternative datasets, with rigorous validation and PIT controls
Occasionally travel (5-6x a year) for conferences and client meetings
Research datasets, develop use cases, and backtest factors, signals, and systematic strategies, including time-based out-of-sample validation and basic turnover assumptions
Collaborate cross-functionally with Product, Data, and Engineering teams to scale research into production-ready quant products
Shape the future of the quant business line by contributing to team strategy and process development at a critical inflection point for YipitData
Requirements:
Ability to explain research to investment audiences
Extensive systematic research experience in the U.S. equities, including cross-sectional equity factor construction and signal research
Track record of generating a pipeline of data-driven buy-side-focused research material
Experience translating fundamentals and estimates into systematic features and backtesting those
4-5+ years of relevant experience in a position focused on medium-frequency quantitative equity research, plus a PhD in a quantitative field such as Finance, Econometrics, Financial Engineering, Mathematics, Statistics, or Computer Science is preferred, OR 6-8 years of relevant experience with a Master’s in a relevant field
Good grasp of statistics, econometrics, financial time series, factor, and signal modeling
Strong Python with reproducible research practices (e.g., git, testing, and efficient research code on large datasets)