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Quantitative Trader

Remote role Full-time Open position

Tower Research Capital is a leading quantitative trading firm founded in 1998, known for its high-performance trading platform and independent teams. The Quantitative Trader role involves designing and deploying trading algorithms, supporting live trade strategies, and conducting research on market data to identify trading opportunities.

Responsibilities

  • Design, implement and deploy trading algorithms
  • Support live trade strategies in production
  • Research high to mid frequency alphas
  • Explore trading ideas by analyzing market data, market microstructure and alternate data for patterns
  • Present research results transparently and convincingly
  • Create tools to analyze data for patterns and develop data platforms
  • Contribute to libraries of analytical computations to support market data analysis and trading
  • Develop, augment and calibrate exchange simulators
  • Part-time work from home benefits

Skills

  • Bachelor's degree or foreign equivalent in Mathematics, Statistics, Computer Science, or related STEM field
  • Experience may be gained from coursework or internship. Must have experience with the following:
  • Derivatives pricing and stochastic calculus
  • Machine Learning including LLM
  • Probability Theory
  • Mathematics and statistics
  • Back-testing, simulation, and statistical techniques, including auto-regression, auto-correlation and Principal Component Analysis
  • Data mining and analysis skills, including experience dealing with a large amount of data
  • Signal generation and statistical models
  • Programming skills in Python or C++

Benefits

  • Generous paid time off policies
  • Savings plans and other financial wellness tools available in each region
  • Hybrid working opportunities
  • Free breakfast, lunch, and snacks daily
  • In-office wellness experiences and reimbursement for select wellness expenses (e.g., gym, personal training and more)
  • Company-sponsored sports teams and fitness events (JPM Corporate Challenge, Cycle for Survival, Wall Street Rides FAR and more)
  • Volunteer opportunities and charitable giving
  • Social events, happy hours, treats, and celebrations throughout the year
  • Workshops and continuous learning opportunities
  • Part-time work from home benefits

Company Overview

  • Tower Research Ventures, the venture arm of Tower Research Capital, does pre-seed and seed investments in NYC. It was founded in 1998, and is headquartered in New York, New York, USA, with a workforce of 1001-5000 employees. Its website is https://tower-research.com/ventures/.
  • Company H1B Sponsorship

  • Tower Research Capital has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships, with 5 in 2026, 33 in 2025, 35 in 2024, 31 in 2023, 44 in 2022, 31 in 2021, 35 in 2020. Please note that this does not guarantee sponsorship for this specific role.
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