Principal Quantitative Researcher - Systematic

Chicagotrading

📍 Chicago, Illinois, United States; New York, New York, United States
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Job Description

CTC is a cutting-edge proprietary trading firm with a long-term vision and a clear focus on helping the world price and manage risk. Our fun and trusting culture inspires us to solve the industry’s most challenging problems and take calculated risks in a collaborative environment. We strive to be the most innovative firm in the industry today, tomorrow, and long into the future while upholding ethical excellence. We believe that CTC makes a positive impact on the markets, the lives of our employees, and all the communities to which we belong. Started in 1995 by a team of forward-thinking Traders, we are proud to call ourselves an industry leader that keeps making markets and each other better. Quantitative research is a key driver of innovation at CTC and one of the pillars upon which our firm is built. We are seeking a Principal Quantitative Researcher to partner with Trading and Technology to drive new revenue, scale, and evolve the firm's trading capabilities. In this role, you will lead research areas, influencing the direction of the team in a dynamic environment. This includes partnership with other researcher managers, traders and engineers on quantitative problem solving, trading strategy generation, back-testing, statistical analysis, and system design. &nbsp; Take advantage of this opportunity to apply the scientific method to business problems as part of the Quant team at CTC! &nbsp; What You’ll Do Define and articulate a long-term vision that will lead to new sources of revenue, evolving with business needs and market structure &nbsp; Conduct commercially focused revenue generating research, while supporting others with their research &nbsp; Develop a structured roadmap and ensure quant functions remain focused, aligned, and accountable &nbsp; Direct development of innovative infrastructure across pricing models and research platforms <span data-ccp-props="{&quot;134233117&quot;:false,&quot;134233118&quot;:false,&quot

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