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About the Role
The Quantitative Equity Trader (Americas Markets) will be an integral member of the Equity Trading Team, responsible for implementing tactical and investment decisions in global markets. This role involves creative problem-solving, executing trades, and collaborating with various teams to understand investment objectives and develop strategic approaches to source liquidity. The position operates within a strong teamwork culture, prioritizing collaboration and cooperation. The role primarily involves trading during US market hours, from 5:00 am to 2:00 pm San Francisco time. This is a 2-to-4-year position with potential for longer-term employment.
Responsibilities
- Implement investment policy decisions and cash flow trades by leveraging data and quantitative methods.
- Advocate changes to trading strategies and processes to achieve better trade execution outcomes for clients.
- Partner with the trade strategy team to develop and enhance execution strategies by customizing broker algorithms and pre-/post-trade analytics to improve trade performance.
- Collaborate with the trade strategy team to build a quantitative trading framework to identify trade signals using market data.
- Lead and help equity traders to incorporate trading signals into their trading workflow.
- Develop and execute equity-linked currencies and currency hedging strategies.
- Develop and manage broker relationships to source liquidity.
- Communicate market and execution updates verbally and in writing to other traders, research analysts, portfolio managers, and policy committee members.
- Provide equity trading presentations to existing and potential clients and consultants.
- Collaborate with other traders and the Operations, Legal/Compliance, and IT departments on ad-hoc projects.
Requirements
- Ability and desire to work in a team-oriented environment.
- Strong analytical, problem-solving, and communication skills.
- Preferred 3-5 years' experience trading US, Canada, and Latin America markets on either the buyside or sell side.
- A strong academic record.
- CFA designation or interest in obtaining the CFA designation.
- Quantitative trading experience.
- Solid understanding of trading algorithms and statistical modelling preferred.
- Deep knowledge of US market microstructure and exchange rules and regulations.
- Advanced working knowledge of MS Excel, PowerPoint.
- Experience analyzing trade executions and performance.
- Willingness and flexibility to cover different markets and trading hours.
- Familiarity with modern AI tools and frameworks (e.g., PyTorch, TensorFlow, LLM-based tools) to accelerate research, prototyping, and workflow automation.
- All Dodge & Cox employees must adhere to the Firm’s security policies and Code of Ethics.
- Consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.
Skills
- Python or R preferred
- MS Excel
- MS PowerPoint
Location
- Americas Markets
Work Type
- Full-time
Experience Level
- 3-5 years
Education Level
- MFE/MBA preferred
Salary/Compensations
- $150,000k - $175,000k
Benefits
- Coverage of 100% of all healthcare premiums for employees and their families.
- Fully funding a retirement plan at 25% of the total compensation to the IRS limit.
- Commuter benefits.
- Health & wellness benefits.
- Backup care benefits.
- Matching gift benefits.
- Employee assistance program.
- Life insurance.
- Disability insurance.
About the Company
- Dodge & Cox has a team-based collaborative culture where individuals are empowered to contribute in a meaningful way.
- The firm attracts candidates with high levels of academic and professional achievement and leadership ability.
Equal Opportunity
- The Company’s policy is to provide equal opportunity to all persons without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, marital or domestic partner status, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, ancestry, national origin, disability, or medical condition, as defined in state and federal laws.
- This policy covers all aspects of employment including, but not limited to, recruitment, selection, training, promotion, transfer, compensation, demotion, and termination.
- By applying for a position with Dodge & Cox, you acknowledge that you have read our EEO Policy.