Quantitative Researcher - Investments

Job description

We are seeking a quantitative researcher / data scientist to join the Investments team at Wealthfront. The primary responsibility of the role is to investigate and develop proprietary, automated investment strategies addressing our clients' various investment problems. Your focus will span topics related to asset allocation, portfolio construction, optimization, tax efficiency, trade execution, behavioral finance, and will afford you the opportunity to work with a proprietary dataset spanning the investments of hundreds of thousands of clients. Successful candidates will combine an ability to derive and apply quantitative models to the empirical analysis of financial and client data. Code and models are the way we express insights and analysis, thus you need to be comfortable working with large datasets and writing significant amounts of code. Responsibilities: - Build reproducible backtests for proposed models / algorithms - Contribute to the deployment and implementation of differentiated investment services - Contribute to the development of infrastructure for modelling, optimization, backtesting, analytics, and data management - Investigate, identify, and acquire internal / ext...