Wealthfront

Quantitative Researcher – Investments

Wealthfront

full-time

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Location Type: Remote

Location: CaliforniaUnited States

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Salary

💰 $185,000 - $211,000 per year

Tech Stack

About the role

  • Build reproducible backtests for proposed models / algorithms
  • Contribute to the deployment and implementation of differentiated investment services
  • Contribute to the development of infrastructure for modelling, optimization, backtesting, analytics, and data management
  • Investigate, identify, and acquire internal / external datasets
  • Collaborate with other teams (engineering, product, design, marketing, and compliance) to commercialize new products and ongoing enhancements to existing products
  • Promote our products by providing data and authoring blog posts and white papers

Requirements

  • Bachelors or Masters Degree in mathematics, statistics, economics or computer science (or a related quantitative discipline). If you have done or are thinking about doing a PhD someday, chances are you’ll love our team
  • 4+ years of experience in systematic or quantitative investing or a higher degree in a quantitative field
  • Experience analyzing complex data and building statistical models
  • Proficiency in Python or R (you have written massive amounts of code, employing revision control, and testing)
  • Competency in SQL preferred
Benefits
  • medical
  • vision
  • dental
  • 401K plan
  • generous time off
  • parental leave
  • wellness reimbursements
  • professional development
  • employee investing discount
  • and more!
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools
backtestingstatistical modelsdata analysisPythonRSQLdata managementoptimizationanalyticsrevision control
Soft Skills
collaborationcommunicationproblem-solvingcreativitywriting
Certifications
Bachelors DegreeMasters DegreePhD