Vice President, Quant Researcher - Platform

iCapital

4.5

(23)

New York, NY

Why you should apply for a job to iCapital:

  • 4.5/5 in overall job satisfaction
  • 4.7/5 in supportive management
  • 96% say women are treated fairly and equally to men
  • 100% would recommend this company to other women
  • 70% say the CEO supports gender diversity
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    Position summary

    nd team development. Participate in research sessions and knowledge-sharing initiatives to facilitate continuous learning and skills development within the quantitative research team.

    This is an in-office role.

    Salary: $180,000 - $210,000/year.

    Requirements: Ph.D. in Finance, Economics or a related field and one (1) year of experience quantitative research/development in the finance industry. Experience must include one (1) year each of the following: data cleaning and analytics of financial datasets in R/Julia; financial panel data analysis; development of continuous-time financial models; predictive models of financial time series; backtesting and model validation; behavioral analysis and modeling of preferences; convex optimization techniques; supervised machine learning methods, including dimensionality reduction and regularization techniques; and automated end-to-end model pipeline implementation. Experience may be gained concurrently.

    Must have knowledge of the following: utility-based portfolio construction; construction of factor mimicking portfolios; application of Generalized Method of Moments (GMM) to asset pricing models; Maximum Likelihood Estimation (MLE); hierarchical Bayesian statistical modeling; asymptotic analysis; parametric and non-parametric bootstrapping; discrete choice modeling; and causal inference and natural experimentation techniques. Knowledge may be gained through graduate coursework or research.

    Why you should apply for a job to iCapital:

  • 4.5/5 in overall job satisfaction
  • 4.7/5 in supportive management
  • 96% say women are treated fairly and equally to men
  • 100% would recommend this company to other women
  • 70% say the CEO supports gender diversity
  • Ratings are based on anonymous reviews by Fairygodboss members.