The StraightUp BitHit Apply below to send your application for consideration Ensure that your CV is up to date, and that you have read the job specs first.- Who were hiring for Yes, its a hedge fund.Yes, theyre one of the biggest systematic shops youve almost definitely heard about.Yes, they already run serious intraday equity flow across the globe.Now lets talk about the gap they havent filled yet.The Role This firms HFT unit is sitting on a warehouse of alpha from researchers across the HFT business.What they dont currently have is a cross-asset Monetisation Stack- the layer that turns raw signals into realtime, riskbalanced positions.Thats where you come in.As the Lead Monetisation Quant you will: Pipe every alpha stream through a clean, latencyaware weighting engine.Build an optimiser for intraday books, factoring capacity, impact and microstructure quirks.Own live PnL attribution and feedback to researchers & traders.Hire and mentor the team that will scale this from clever prototype to firmwide PnL driver.Greenfield.No legacy code.You set the standards.The Opportunity All the levers, none of the red tape direct line to the head of the HFT business, a chance to own the project and develop a cross-asset monetisation framework (starting with Equity and expanding out) Massive surface area every equity alpha the firm produces flows through your framework; your tweaks move firmlevel returns.Global flexibility London HQ initially, but with global mobility in the future.About You ~5 yrs quant experience with at least 2 yrs designing portfolio construction / optimisation for intraday / shortterm equities.Fluent in statistics & ML (shrinkage, online learning, factor models) and market microstructure (spreads, impact, queue dynamics).Polyglot coder who can prototype in Python and drop to C++ when speed matters.Comfortable leading 35 quants, owning architecture and managing engineering collaboration with technology.Interested? Drop me a line: ben@augmentti.com (or hit Apply and then email me so I know youre not a bot).Well keep it confidential.(If youre looking for pure alpha research roles or a pod seat, this isnt it (but we should still chat see above contact address).If you want to build the engine for alpha combination to make serious impact on already serious PnL, lets talk.)
Job Title
Lead Quant Researcher - Monetisation