Quantitative Researcher
You will design the tasks that separate a factor with predictive power from a factor that only looked good on the sample it was fitted to.
- up to $250 / hr
- Remote
- Contract · flexible hours
- Finance & markets
- For upcoming worlds
What we are looking for
Hedge fund or bank quant, PhD preferred
- Research track record — Current or former quant researcher at a fund, bank, or market maker
- Overfitting instinct — You can tell a discovery from a fit in someone else’s backtest
- Statistical rigour — Comfort with out-of-sample design, decay, and multiple-testing correction
- Clarity — Ability to state why a result should not be trusted
Work you might do
- Designing factor-mining tasks with honest holdout structure
- Reviewing model-generated research for silent lookahead and survivorship
- Defining what a real out-of-sample decay curve should look like
- Building degenerate strategies that beat a naive baseline without discovering anything
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