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About the Role
DRW is seeking an experienced Quant Researcher to join their global commodities trading team. This role will focus on alpha generation, research, development, and maintenance of analytics infrastructure.
Responsibilities
- Develop systematic trading strategies and alpha generating signals across commodity markets.
- Enhance data collection procedures to support improved design, development, and maintenance of data pipelines for research and trading.
- Analyze large, diverse datasets to identify trends and build/maintain models for trading decisions, including the use of AI and LLMs.
- Extract and organize data from various sources, performing quantitative analysis to support trading.
- Assist in the development of analytical tools.
- Translate business needs into data science projects.
- Collaborate with stakeholders throughout project lifecycles.
- Communicate projects and results to diverse audiences.
- Create and maintain post-trade diagnostics tools for various strategies.
Requirements
- A bachelor’s, master’s, or PhD in mathematics, statistics, physics, engineering, computer science, or a related field.
- Experience using AI and LLMs.
- Passion and interest for a quant researcher role solving real-world business problems.
- Minimum of two years' experience in an alpha generating role.
- Experience working with large datasets, data cleaning, preprocessing, and feature engineering.
- Experience building, validating, deploying, monitoring, and updating predictive models.
- Excellent programming and scripting skills.
- Experience working independently and delivering results.
- Excellent written and oral communication skills, with experience communicating complex ideas clearly and concisely to peers and stakeholders.
- Strong collaborative intent and outcome-driven focus.
- Positive, team-focused attitude.
Skills
- AI
- LLMs
- Data Analysis
- Quantitative Analysis
- Programming
- Scripting
- Data Cleaning
- Data Preprocessing
- Feature Engineering
- Model Building
- Model Validation
- Model Deployment
- Model Monitoring
- Model Updating
- Communication
Location
- Chicago
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- Minimum of two years' experience in an alpha generating role
Education Level
- Bachelor's degree
- Master's degree
- PhD
About the Company
- DRW is a diversified trading firm with over 3 decades of experience bringing sophisticated technology and exceptional people together to operate in markets around the world.
- They value autonomy and the ability to quickly pivot to capture opportunities, operating using their own capital and trading at their own risk.
- Headquartered in Chicago with offices throughout the U.S., Canada, Europe, and Asia, they trade a variety of asset classes including Fixed Income, ETFs, Equities, FX, Commodities and Energy across all major global markets.
- They have leveraged their expertise and technology to expand into real estate, venture capital, and cryptoassets.
- DRW operates with respect, curiosity, and open minds, seeking individuals who share their belief that how they do things matters as much as what they do.
- DRW is a place of high expectations, integrity, innovation, and a willingness to challenge consensus.
Equal Opportunity
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