Senior / Lead Quant Trader, AI Research Lab
QNT Partners is hiring for an AI research lab in Europe that trades its own capital in live markets. The lab builds new machine learning models for real-time prediction, and the trading desk is where those models meet real markets. It's early stage and venture-backed, and this is one of the first senior hires onto the desk, with equity attached.
What you'd be doing
You'll own strategies end to end: research them, put them into production and run them live, working alongside the lab's AI researchers.
- Short-horizon alpha models across a range of venues and instruments
- Market making and execution logic, with real attention to slippage and costs
- Live risk and monitoring around everything you deploy
- Research and backtesting tooling, improved where it slows you down
The lab
- An AI-first research culture, with original model architectures built in-house rather than off-the-shelf ML
- Live trading across multiple venues, so research gets tested against real P&L quickly
- A small senior team, mixing AI researchers with traders from leading market makers, funds and banks
- Founders who are hands-on in both the research and the trading
- Very little hierarchy, so ideas reach production quickly
You'll likely have
- A track record of strategies that have traded real capital
- A strong feel for microstructure and how order books behave
- C++ for performance-critical code and Python for research
- Hands-on experience with FIX and live exchange feeds
- A disciplined approach to backtesting and live performance
- Curiosity about applying new AI methods to trading
- A quantitative degree, ideally postgraduate, though it isn't essential
On offer
- Competitive base and performance bonus
- Real influence over how the lab trades and what it researches
Senior Quantitative Trader in London employer: QNT Partners
QNT Partners is an attractive employer due to its focus on innovation and evidence-based trading strategies. Employees have the opportunity to take full ownership of their work, contributing directly to the firm's success. The collaborative environment fosters professional growth and encourages continuous learning.
