Quantitative Trader

The Role

Join a dynamic team in Zurich, where your skills as an experienced quantitative trader will be put to the test. The ideal candidate will blend rigorous macroeconomic insight with hands-on trading experience across credit, rates, and related derivatives. You will be responsible for developing and maintaining systematic models, collaborating closely with Portfolio Managers on trade ideas and risk, and leveraging a network of sell-side economists and strategists to stay ahead of market trends.

Responsibilities

• Design, code, and maintain systematic and semi-systematic trading models spanning corporate bonds, credit ETFs, CDS indices, equity/vol cross-asset overlays, and curve-relative value strategies.
• Build data pipelines, back-testing frameworks, and real-time risk/P&L dashboards in Python/C++ for fixed-income and multi-asset products.
• Conduct deep-dive macro research, integrating fundamentals, flow data, and machine-learning techniques to generate high-conviction trade ideas.
• Produce concise macroeconomic briefs for Portfolio Managers, distilling complex drivers such as global rates cycles, credit spread dynamics, liquidity, and volatility regimes.
• Partner with Technology and Risk to refine execution algorithms, hedging rules, and portfolio-trading workflows.

Qualifications

• Over 10 years of experience in macroeconomic research, credit volatility trading, and cross-asset systematic strategy design.
• Experience working at top-tier multi-manager hedge funds and leading sell-side algo/ETF desks.
• Proven track record in building and calibrating complex economic/financial models including mean-reversion, momentum, convexity, liquidity, and relative-value frameworks.
• Advanced programming skills in Python, C++, and SQL; familiarity with R/MATLAB and VBA-Excel.
• Work experience in credit indices (CDX/iTraxx), bond/ETF micro-structure, and derivatives greeks/risk.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills—capable of translating quantitative outputs into clear investment theses.
• A Master’s in Finance from a top-tier university and a Bachelor’s degree in a STEM discipline.
• Completion of CFA Level I examination.

About Us

At Schonfeld Strategic Advisors, we are a global multi-strategy, multi-manager investment platform dedicated to harnessing the transformative power of people to excel in all market environments. Our mission is to consistently deliver risk-adjusted returns driven by our talented team. Specializing in strategies like Quantitative Trading, Fundamental Equity, Tactical Trading, and Discretionary Macro & Fixed Income, we capitalize on market inefficiencies leveraging proprietary technology, infrastructure, and risk analytics across 9 countries and 19 offices.

Our Culture

Our people are our most valuable asset. We prioritize talent and promote a teamwork-oriented and collaborative environment where ideas are encouraged to be shared at all levels. Committed to investing in our employees, we offer learning and development opportunities aimed at fostering a sense of belonging, valuing diversity of identity, thought, and perspective—this serves as the foundation of our organizational culture. We are dedicated to creating a fair, welcoming, and supportive hiring process for everyone.