Data Quant Intern in QuantConnect

Remote | Semi Senior | Full time | Data Science / Analytics

Gross salary $2000 - 3200 USD/month

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QuantConnect is a radically open-source, algorithmic trading technology company building infrastructure to empower engineering and financial analysts worldwide, with over 60 public repositories. We serve 400,000 engineers who use our platform to write trading algorithms and have traded more than $45B/mo in volume with our open-source algorithmic trading platform.

We host a web-based coding environment to enable the community to design and code their trading strategies in python or C#. We often have thousands of users simultaneously running intensive data processing.

Our radically open-source project, LEAN, is in the top 0.4% of all GitHub projects with 6,800+ stars. LEAN is the state-of-the-art, cross-platform, C# kernel of QuantConnect, processing billions in trading volumes and trillions of data points daily on our cloud cluster.

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Job Functions

Reviewing data bug reports and fixing existing datasets.
Monitoring live feeds and daily processing logs to ensure data is delivered in a timely manner.
Build/apply new technology to automate as much as possible.
Determine if data reports are genuine issues or normal market operations.
Onboarding new datasets to QuantConnect (review vendor API, and implement classes in QC C#).
Writing documentation for new datasets.
Researching historical price discontinuities to discover missing splits and dividend payments.

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TO APPLY CHOOSE ANY OF THE OPTIONS BELOW TO STAND OUT:
Its impossible to stand out as someone who actually cares here where hundreds of people do 1-click apply. Do any of the items below to have your application reviewed. Provide a link to result of the work at the very top of your cover letter.
- Fork the QuantConnect Repository Data SDK Template and implement a LEAN dataset.
- Fix an issue tagged "good first issue" in LEAN Repo, mention applying to the data engineering position.
- Research an equities data issue in QuantConnect (https://www.quantconnect.com/datasets/issues) and isolate the cause for it. Provide code proving the cause and links to news articles.

Qualifications and Requirements

A degree in quantitative finance or strong familiarity with market mechanics.
Strong python or C# skills required.
Bring creative solutions and show initiative in problem solving.
Good written communication skills, and attention to detail.
Understand the underlying mechanics of the markets.

Desirable Skills

Experience investing or trading.
Experience using our algorithm API to define a strategy.
Experience creating a pull-request to git to understand team collaboration.

Benefits

A creative and challenging work environment where you're given a lot of control and discretion to execute the company's mission. We believe in hiring a few brilliant people and giving them the tools to do the job.
We are a radically open-source company, contributing millions of lines of code annually. We harness and contribute to a dozen repositories around the world.
Our primary users are other brilliant quants and engineers; working with the community is a joy as you learn from the best in the world.
Paid 2W holiday each year. In the US we cover healthcare, dental, and life insurance.

GETONBRD Job ID: 56290

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Remote work policy

Fully remote

Candidates can reside anywhere in the world.

About QuantConnect

We inspire, empower and educate a global community of quants, providing world-class infrastructure for them to design and market their trading ideas. — QuantConnect's full profile