Description
The Role
We are seeking a highly motivated individual with strong data or computer science skills to support and enhance our quantitative trading operations. The role combines real-time trading oversight, process automation, and cross-team collaboration, with room to grow into supervisory responsibilities in a regulated environment.
Key Responsibilities
- Oversee quantitative trading activity during market hours, monitoring strategy performance, execution quality, and key risk or control thresholds.
- Maintain and enhance monitoring tools, dashboards, alerts, and operational runbooks to support safe, scalable trading operations.
- Coordinate and lead incident response, trade and position reconciliations, and issue resolution with internal teams and external counterparties.
- Support portfolio operations (including rebalancing and inventory or constraint management) using data-driven and automated workflows.
- Develop a strong understanding of market structure, broker services, and trading platforms, and collaborate with portfolio managers, engineers, and other stakeholders to turn recurring operational issues into durable process and system improvements.
Required Skills & Qualifications
- Bachelor’s, Master’s, or PhD degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Engineering, Finance, Economics, or a related quantitative field.
- 3+ years of relevant experience in the financial industry.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with a data-driven mindset.
- Proficiency in Python and familiarity with Linux-based environments.
- High attention to detail, strong communication skills, and the ability to operate in a fast-paced environment.
- Interest in taking on increasing levels of oversight and supervisory responsibility in a regulated trading environment.
Who We Are
Schonfeld is a global multi-manager hedge fund that strives to deliver industry-leading risk-adjusted returns for our investors. We leverage both internal and external portfolio manager teams around the world, seeking to capitalize on inefficiencies and opportunities within the markets. We draw from decades of experience and a significant investment in proprietary technology, infrastructure and risk analytics to invest across four main strategies: Quant, Tactical, Fundamental Equity and Discretionary Macro & Fixed Income.
Our Culture
At Schonfeld, we’ll invest in you. Attracting and retaining top talent is at the heart of what we do, because we believe that exceptional outcomes begin with exceptional people. We foster a culture where talent is empowered to continually learn, innovate and pursue ambitious goals. We are teamwork-oriented, collaborative and encourage ideas—at all levels—to be shared. As an organization committed to investing in our people, we provide learning and educational offerings and opportunities to make an impact. We encourage community through internal networks, external partnerships and service initiatives that promote inclusion and purpose beyond the firm’s walls.
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