Quantitative Researcher - Commodities
DRWAbout the Role
DRW is seeking an experienced Quant Researcher to join the global commodities trading team to support alpha generation, research, development, and maintenance of analytics infrastructure. The role involves developing systematic trading strategies and alpha generating signals across commodity markets, enhancing data collection procedures, analyzing large datasets to identify trends, and building models to support trading decisions using AI and LLMs.
- Developing systematic trading strategies and alpha generating signals across commodity markets
- Enhancing data collection procedures and maintaining data pipelines for research and trading
- Analyzing large, diverse datasets to identify trends and build models to support trading decisions
- Creating and maintaining post-trade diagnostics tools across various strategies
Requirements
- A bachelor's, master's, or PhD in mathematics, statistics, physics, engineering, computer science or related field
- Experience using AI and LLM's
- Passion and interest for a quant researcher role solving real-world business problems
- Minimum of two years' experience in alpha generating role
- Experience working with large datasets, data cleaning, preprocessing, and feature engineering
- Experience building, validating, deploying, monitoring, and updating predictive models
- Excellent programming and scripting skills
- Experience working independently and delivering results
- Excellent written and oral communication skills, experience communicating complex ideas clearly and concisely to peers and stakeholders
- Strong collaborative intent, strong outcome driven focus
- Positive, team focused attitude