Quantitative Researcher (Fixed Income)

Old Mission is a global proprietary trading firm that leverages state-of-the-art technology and research to identify and execute profitable trading strategies across multiple asset classes around the world. Our offices in Chicago, New York, and London are all composed of naturally-curious individuals who thrive in a team environment and constantly strive for improvement.

Old Mission does not seek capital from outside investors, allowing us the flexibility to aggressively invest in our team members and keep them engaged in the firm's growth.

About the Position

Old Mission Capital, a global quantitative proprietary trading firm, is currently hiring a talented Quantitative Researcher to join our growing Fixed Income operation. The ideal candidate will have experience trading fixed income assets, corporate bonds, and other debt instruments. This Quantitative Researcher will be familiar with building and improving the firm's risk and pricing models, as well as understanding the risks in trading these assets.

Responsibilities

• Perform exploratory data analysis on various market datasets, including bond data, exchange quote data, and third-party pricing data, generate trading signals and evaluate how they might be applied.
• Research and develop quantitative models to forecast bonds and commodities' various metrics, including price, bid-ask spread, liquidity, etc, prototype predictive models, and perform regressions and other machine learning analysis to validate, backtest, and improve quantitative models.
• Contribute to the development and continuous assessment of trade execution.

Required Skills

Benefits and Perks

Base Salary Range

$175,000 - $250,000 - Salaries are based on numerous factors such as skills, experience, and education. Our compensation package also includes a discretionary bonus

and a comprehensive benefits program for full-time employees. For more information, reach out to your recruiter.

Old Mission is not accepting unsolicited resumes from any staffing / search firms. All resumes submitted by staffing / search firms to any employee at Old Mission via-email, the Internet or directly without a valid signed search agreement will be deemed the sole property of Old Mission, and no fee will be paid in the event the candidate is hired by Old Mission.