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Quantitative Researcher

  • Hourly contract
  • Remote
  • Flexible hours
T1 · Markets & execution
$250top rate per hour
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About the role

You will design the tasks that separate a factor with predictive power from a factor that only looked good on the sample it was fitted to.

What you will do

  • Designing factor-mining tasks with honest holdout structure
  • Reviewing model-generated research for silent lookahead and survivorship
  • Defining what a real out-of-sample decay curve should look like
  • Building degenerate strategies that beat a naive baseline without discovering anything

Who we are looking for

  • Research track record: Current or former quant researcher at a fund, bank, or market maker
  • Overfitting instinct: You can tell a discovery from a fit in someone else’s backtest
  • Statistical rigour: Comfort with out-of-sample design, decay, and multiple-testing correction
  • Clarity: Ability to state why a result should not be trusted

Credential

Hedge fund or bank quant, PhD preferred.

Pay

Up to $250 an hour for this role. Each role shows its top hourly rate, from up to $40 for generalist review to up to $300 for portfolio managers. Your starting rate depends on your credentials; sustained quality moves you towards the top rate. Joining the waitlist is not an offer of work; rates are agreed in writing before any project starts.

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