full-time
Head of Quantitative Research
KDR Talent Solutions
- Employer
- KDR Talent Solutions
- Location
- New York
- Working pattern
- on-site
- Salary
- $200,000–$300,000 / year
About the role
Lead the quantitative research roadmap and research team, developing, validating, and launching systematic intraday and short-term strategies across equities, foreign exchange, futures, and other liquid markets. Run and scale a live automated trading book while improving modeling, execution, risk, and capital allocation frameworks and advising executive leadership. Requires a verifiable buy-side record of building, testing, and monetizing automated trading systems, with deep expertise in short-term market microstructure and latency-sensitive execution. Candidates should have a strong quantitative programming background and experience guiding quantitative researchers, with primary trading expertise in equities, currencies, or exchange-traded futures.