Quantitative Analyst (Staff, Senior Staff)

Summary

Join Equilibrium Energy, a well-funded clean energy startup, as a quantitative analyst to accelerate the maturation of our trading business and shape science-driven products. As a key member of our sciences group, you will cultivate experimentation, facilitate research, identify talent, and partner with cross-functional teams.

Requirements

• Passion for clean energy and fighting climate change
• An advanced degree in computer science, data science, machine learning, artificial intelligence, operations research, engineering, or related quantitative discipline
• 6+ years experience in quantitative research & analytics, automated systematic financial trading, or similar role, in the US Power Markets
• 4+ years experience with python and the supporting computational science tool suite (e.g. numpy, scipy, pandas, scikit-learn, tensorflow, etc)
• Experience in the electricity and energy domain (e.g. wholesale market prices)
• Experience developing, releasing, and tracking performance of quantitative trading strategies in production
• Experience communicating mathematical concepts, analytical results, and data-driven insights to both technical and non-technical audiences
• A collaboration-first mentality, with a willingness to teach as well as learn from others

Responsibilities

• Use research insights to shape product direction
• Initiate and lead cross-functional engagements to surface, prioritize, formulate, and structure complex and ambiguous challenges where advanced novel quantitative analytics or machine learning techniques can drive outsized company trading impact
• Trading performance analytics : Investigate driving factors in trading over/under performance, identifying learnings, and drive a fly-wheel of continuous strategy improvement and team education
• Research, develop, backtest, and deploy novel quantitative trading signals and strategies in the energy domain

Benefits

• Competitive base salary and a comprehensive medical, dental, vision, and 401k package
• Opportunity to own a significant piece of the company via a meaningful equity grant
• Unlimited vacation and flexible work schedule
• Ability to work remotely from anywhere in the United States, Canada & Europe, or join one of our regional hubs in Boston, SF Bay Area, or London