Location: London

Strategy: Systematic Equity Long/Short

Octavius Finance is working with an established investment management firm looking to hire a Quantitative Researcher to help develop and expand its systematic equities investment capabilities.

The firm has an established quantitative investment infrastructure and is looking to build out its systematic equity long/short strategies, with a particular focus on single-name equities.

This is an opportunity for a technically strong researcher to play a key role in developing a new investment capability, with the potential to see their research deployed directly into live portfolios.

Key Responsibilities

1. Research and develop systematic equity long/short strategies, focusing on individual stocks.
2. Identify and evaluate new data sources to generate predictive investment signals.
3. Develop and test quantitative factors, alpha signals and systematic investment models.
4. Conduct rigorous backtesting and analysis to assess strategy performance and robustness.
5. Work closely with the investment team to translate research into deployable trading strategies.
6. Contribute to the development of a new systematic equities capability within an established investment platform.

Candidate Requirements

1. Experience in quantitative research within systematic equities, ideally covering equity long/short or statistical arbitrage strategies.
2. Strong understanding of factor construction, alpha research and signal development.
3. Experience working with large financial datasets and alternative data sources.
4. Strong programming capabilities, particularly in Python.
5. Experience developing and testing systematic investment strategies.
6. A commercially minded researcher who understands how quantitative research translates into investment returns.
7. Comfortable working independently and contributing to the development of new investment strategies.

The Opportunity

The successful candidate will join an established investment manager with a strong quantitative infrastructure and the resources to support new strategy development.

Unlike a traditional research position within a large established equities team, this role offers the opportunity to help build a systematic equities capability from an early stage, with significant ownership over research and strategy development.

Successful strategies would initially be deployed within the firm's existing investment platform, with the potential to develop into a standalone investment product over time.

To apply or find out more, please send your CV to

mailto:quantresearch@octaviusfinance.com