Quantitative Scientist (Staff / Sr Staff) - Power Markets
About the role
What we are looking for
Equilibrium was founded with a vision for building a company where innovation, collaboration, machine learning, and data science power all aspects of our algorithmic decision-making. We are looking for staff / sr staff quantitative scientists with a heavy focus on trading strategy research and development in the energy space to accelerate the maturation of our quantitative trading & platform-as-a-service businesses. You'll help to shape the science-driven products, tools, & processes that will drive the future success of our company and lead the energy transition.
As a key member of our sciences group, you will play an active role in a) cultivating our culture of experimentation, signal discovery, and incremental delivery, b) facilitating research into profitable strategy development and energy market dynamics, c) helping to identify, recruit, train, and mentor members of our growing team of exceptional trading analysts, and d) partnering with our clients, engineers, product managers, and scientists to influence the near to medium term product roadmap.
What you will do
Use research insights to shape product direction and deliver innovative client solutions: Influence product and engineering roadmaps through presentation of research insights, experimental results, and trading strategy backtest metrics, in order to evolve organizational direction and drive positive impact at EQ's clients. Initiate and lead cross-functional engagements to surface, prioritize, and structure advanced novel quantitative analytics or machine learning techniques that can drive outsized impact on company trading strategies and client solutions.
Trading performance analytics: Investigate driving factors in trading over/under performance, identifying learnings, and drive a fly-wheel of continuous strategy improvement and team education.
Research, develop, backtest, and deploy novel quantitative trading signals and strategies in the energy domain: Identify and extract sources of trading alpha by researching multiple energy datasets, surveying industry techniques & domain intuition, and executing hands-on experimental models & backtests. Drive the design, specification, development