
Staff Research Scientist – Quant Fund – Up to $2m TC
at Durlston Partners
Posted 19 hours ago
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- Compensation
- Up to $2,000,000 USD
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Senior individual contributor role at a discreet, research-driven proprietary trading firm to drive novel deep learning applications in trading. You'll lead technical innovation, shape firmwide research strategy, and productise DL advances (RL, transformers, learned systems) across research and trading. The role is remote and involves close collaboration with research scientists, Kaggle Grandmasters and other top technical talent. Strong academic research credentials and experience at top research institutions are highly desirable.
A discreet global Research-driven prop shop has partnered with us to find a Staff Research Scientist to work on novel DL model uses in Trading, hiring remotely.
Role – This is a Senior IC seat, responsible for technical innovation and shaping research strategies firmwide, using the most update to date developments in AI/DL. This will work closely with a team of Research scientists and Kaggle Grandmasters to conduct foundational research and productising deep learning innovations across all strategies, research and trading – a blank slate to apply frontier AI thinking (RL, transformers, learned systems) in a high-impact environment interesting points on how Deep NN interact with the extremely noisy world of financial markets.
Ideal experience:
Working in a top research firm + experience teaching at a Tier 1 Research University + Strong H-index
Progression – you will start as a very senior IC, and compensation will grow significantly, with options to grow your team should you wish to do so.
Team – they are exceptional, consisting of a number of Kaggle Grandmasters, as well as ICPC/IMO/IMC medallists.





