What are the responsibilities and job description for the Quantitative Researcher position at Alexander Chapman?
I’m working with a lean stat arb team in New York that’s already running capital and selectively adding one Quantitative Researcher.
This isn’t a “support the platform” role.
If you join, the expectation is simple:
you find signals, you build them, and they get traded.
The work is classic equity stat arb - cross-sectional, signal-driven, mostly mid-frequency with shorter horizon extensions - but the way they operate is what stands out:
- You’re not inheriting a sandbox. You’re expected to add new alpha
- Broad freedom across data sources and approach (price, fundamentals, alt data, microstructure)
- Very little separation between research and implementation
- Small team, so your work is visible and directly tied to the book
This is the kind of seat where one good idea actually matters.
If you’ve done equity stat arb and want more control over what you work on — and what gets traded - we should talk.