Quantitative Developer

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Title: Quantitative Developer

Location: Chicago, IL (River North)

Salary: $100-125K base + profit share

Position: KAI Volatility Advisors is seeking a Quantitative Developer to join our small entrepreneurial team.

Our Firm: We are a boutique investment advisor running a growing family of volatility and flow-focused hedge funds.

Your Responsibilities:

- Assist Senior Quantitative Analyst in developing robust new infrastructure for strategy research and portfolio construction.

- Work with trading & operations to streamline databases & back office account management infrastructure

- Build/maintain research & trading engine

- Assist quant team and portfolio managers in developing trading strategies using statistical modelling tools including machine learning algorithms

Your Skills & Talents

- Strong proficiency with python

- Proficiency working with cloud infrastructure for parallelized computations

- Good understanding of Linux administration

- Education background in Comp Sci, Data Science, Engineering and/or similar quantitative field (Bachelors or Masters)

- Self-driven

- Detail-oriented

- Creative, inquisitive problem solver

- Previous hands-on experience in quantitative research, data science, and predictive modeling is preferred but not required.

- Working knowledge of probability theory, options theory, and derivatives products is preferred but not required.

- 1-3 years of industry experience is preferred but not required.

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