Smartkarma
Smartkarma
Smartkarma is a fintech company in the finance and artificial intelligence sectors, providing an AI-augmented investment intelligence platform for institutional investors, corporate strategists, private wealth intermediaries, asset owners, asset managers, investment banks, and wealth managers. Its platform brings together premium data analytics, investment analyst connections, research reports, sell-side analysis, earnings calls, and market news in one place. Personalized curation and collaboration tools help users navigate complex information and support faster, more informed investment decisions.

Independent Quantitative Analyst — Remote

Develop systematic trading research, proprietary datasets, and actionable investment insights for institutional asset managers. Work through Smartkarma’s cloud-based platform to publish research and engage with professional investors.

Description

  • Develop actionable trade and investment ideas using statistically validated signals and market judgment
  • Research factors, risk premia, and alpha opportunities
  • Build event-driven and catalyst frameworks spanning earnings, guidance, corporate actions, index changes, and macroeconomic releases
  • Evaluate cross-asset relationships and market regimes, including risk appetite, inflation, interest-rate sensitivity, liquidity, positioning, and flows
  • Publish original research and engage in discussions with institutional clients
  • Deliver high-touch support to selected institutional clients
  • Use Smartkarma’s cloud platform to curate and monetize independent investment research

Requirements

  • Experience as a systematic trader or quantitative researcher/analyst
  • Expertise in systematic strategies across equities, equity derivatives, and multi-asset products, including listed and OTC options and futures
  • Strong research discipline covering signal research, feature engineering, robust multi-horizon backtesting, realistic trading frictions, and clear validation
  • Ability to integrate market judgment with statistical learning
  • Experience building and maintaining proprietary datasets and models, including data collection, cleaning, normalization, mapping, signal construction, and production pipelines
  • Strong written and verbal communication skills
  • At least 8 years of research, trading, or investment experience serving institutional clients
  • Demonstrated quantitative results and proprietary work involving datasets, models, tools, and strategy research
  • Ability to produce structured, concise, and defensible insights for professional investors

Benefits

  • Remote work is available

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