Verition Fund Management LLC (“Verition”) is a multi-strategy, multi-manager hedge fund founded in 2008. Verition focuses on global investment strategies including Global Credit, Global Convertible, Volatility & Capital Structure Arbitrage, Event-Driven Investing, Equity Long/Short & Capital Markets Trading, and Global Quantitative Trading.
We are seeking a Junior Quantitative Researcher to join a systematic equities team in London. The team’s approach is unique, operating at the intersection of systematic and fundamental investment processes, with a strong track record of alpha generation. This is a front-office role in which you will be involved in the entire investment process and will contribute directly to the team’s bottom line.
Responsibilities:
- Day-to-day oversight of production processes
- Research and development of new signals, including idea generation, data ingestion, research, and trading
- Build-out and maintenance of systematic trading infrastructure
Qualifications:
- 1–2 years of experience as a Quantitative Researcher, Quantitative Developer, Data Analyst, or Data Scientist
- Experience with equities and equities-related data (alternative data, market data, fundamental data)
- BSc or MSc in a technical discipline from a top university
- Experience using Python in a production environment
- Exposure to the fundamental investment process (e.g., working as a Data Analyst alongside fundamental PMs)
- Experience with web scraping
- Experience with cloud infrastructure and working knowledge of AWS services (S3, EC2, EKS, SQS, Redshift, IAM)
- Experience working in a Linux environment
