Job Title: Research Scientist
Edgestream Partners is a tight-knit team of scientists, engineers, and business professionals who devote our talents to developing quantitative models of financial markets and using them to trade systematically around the world and around the clock.
Edgestream's culture has more in common with research laboratories and technology startups than with traditional finance. We prize curiosity, creativity, diligence, and intellectual honesty. We focus on the long term, working together to build elegant and general systems that endure and scale as we grow. And we incentivize our employees to cooperate and share ideas, because we know that compounding our efforts magnifies our achievements. The result is a company where smart, dedicated effort can have a major impact.
We've been in the business of managing hedge funds since 2003, and we're still growing. We're looking for talented, curious, and driven people who can grow with us in the years ahead.
About the JobThe Research group at Edgestream consists of highly skilled scientists and engineers, working in collaboration to unravel some of finance's hardest problems. Our ranks include physicists, mathematicians, biologists, machine learning experts, cryptographers, and theoretical computer scientists.
We are responsible for the creation of the scientific models of market behavior which drive trading in our funds. Our investment process is fully research driven, and new members of our team quickly find that they have the opportunity to contribute directly to the company's bottom line.
Our work covers the full spectrum from basic research in statistics, information theory, and algorithms, to investigating new datasets, to building out our research platform, to implementation and analysis of live trading systems.
This position will be located in either Princeton, NJ or New York, NY.
Qualifications:

• PhD in a scientific or engineering discipline (or equivalent experience).
• Track record of high achievement in scientific research.
• Strong analytical and mathematical abilities.
• Comfort with large data and programming.
• No knowledge of finance is required.

Some of the benefits of working at Edgestream:

• Competitive salary, bonus, and incentive compensation based on overall company performance.
• Fantastic resources, accumulated over decades, for turning ideas into reality.
• Comprehensive, first-class benefits (including excellent medical and dental insurance, 401(k), HRA, FSA, life insurance, daily catered lunch, and an onsite gym).
• For qualified employees, the opportunity to invest in our funds.

To apply, please complete the fields below and attach your resume or CV.
Contact InfoFor questions, please contact careers@edgestreamlp.com.
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