💼 Full-Time Position

Independent Quantitative Analyst

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Smartkarma
📍 london, england, United-Kingdom
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Location
london, United-Kingdom
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Posted
May 20, 2026
Type
Full-Time
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Full-Time Opportunity: This is a permanent, full-time position with a competitive package and real career growth potential.

Job Description

Job Description

In general looking for former/current systematic traders and quant researchers / analysts:

  • Experts in systematic strategies across equities, equity derivatives and multi-asset (index and single-name listed and OTC options, futures, etc);
  • Strong research hygiene: signal research, feature engineering, robust backtesting across horizons, realistic frictions and clear validation;
  • Ability to combine market intuition with statistical learning to create and maintain differentiated proprietary datasets and models (unique data collection, cleaning, normalisation, mapping, signal construction and production pipelines) that are hard to replicate and deliver repeatable edge;
  • Strong writing and communication skills: able to articulate and defend research views clearly in published insights and in discussions with institutional clients;

Example of Deliverables

  • Actionable trade and investment ideas based...