Junior Quant Researcher

Job description / Role

Charterhouse are working with a leading Multi-Strat Hedge Fund, who are looking to hire a Junior into their Quant Research Team on the Systematic side of their business. The Fund have been operating in Dubai for the last 12 months and are now looking to grow the team.

As a Quant Researcher, the ideal candidate will be providing quantitative research through predictive modelling. Working closely with the wider research team, this role will be developing models that further develop their quantitative trading strategies across asset classes such as equities, futures and FX.

This is an outstanding opportunity to develop a quant trading career with a leading Hedge Fund who offer one of the strongest in-house training programmes for their quant researchers. The successful candidate will be surrounded by some of the strongest systematic and quantitative PMs in the market and will have the opportunity to provide invaluable support to their desks and strategies.

To be considered for this role, the successful candidate will have at least 2 years’ quant research experience or be a recent PHD graduate from a quantitative finance discipline. The firm code in Python, so having skills in this programming language or comparable language (R, C++) is a must.

About the Company

The Charterhouse brand and business was launched in Dubai and the Middle East in April 2004 by a team of international recruiters and management consultants, after its inception in Sydney, Australia in September 2003. Charterhouse Middle East is now positioned as the leading regional recruiter within its area of disciplines and functional markets.

Charterhouse offers professional and bespoke contingency and retained search services to all sectors of the market. Service quality is guaranteed, thanks to a particular focus on flexibility. Charterhouse was the first international search and selection business to establish Dubai as its base. The growth in the Middle East region has been mirrored by Charterhouse globally, with offices now in Qatar, Hong Kong, Singapore, Melbourne and Sydney.