Job DescriptionSenior Quantitative Researcher – Sports betting Hedge fund Football – London
All the relevant skills, qualifications and experience that a successful applicant will need are listed in the following description.
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*Job SummaryQuantitative Researcher is required for exciting and progressive Sports betting Hedge fund Company with office in London.
You will be developing statistical models to compute the probabilities of outcomes in football.
Sports modelling is their core expertise and the company is structuring the company around creating the best possible technical and cultural environment to enable you to rapidly explore and test alternative models.
You will join a highly skilled and experienced team answering a variety of complex sporting questions.
You will work on building probabilistic models, the quality and evolution of which are central to the company's success.
You will find innovative ways of extracting information from various sporting and market data sources.
Modelling and predicting sports outcomes is a uniquely challenging field, and you will have plenty of opportunities to use your experience, judgement and imagination to solve difficult problems.
As Quantitative Researcher you will need: Advanced degree in Mathematics, Statistics, Physics, Computer Science or a related quantitative discipline3+years experience in football within sports betting industryProven experience building profitable betting models with real-money results — not just impressive backtests.
Deep expertise across probability, statistics and ML, with strong instincts around leakage, overfitting, calibration, uncertainty and realistic validation.
Strong Python + engineering skills — enough to build pipelines, connect APIs, deploy, monitor and debug models end-to-end. A genuinely AI-native workflow, with hands-on experience using LLMs and coding agents to accelerate research, development and debugging.
An owner mentality — you care about whether the strategy works, not just whether the model works.
The OpportunityOpportunities to progress your quantitative developer career. xohmjla Working in GLMs, BMMs, Kalman filters, MCMC and the TrueSkill Ranking systemWorking with some of the brightest Quants within the industry.
Job InformationIndustry Technology Salary 80-110k Date Opened 09/14/2026 Job Type Full time Tech Stack Python City London State/Province Greater London Country United Kingdom Zip/Postal Code EC1A
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