Quantitative Developer, Options

Quantitative Developer, Options (New York, New York): Quantitative Developer, Options positions available. D. E. Shaw & Co., L.P. seeks full-time Quantitative Developer, Options, individuals to work in its office in New York, New York. Responsibilities: Model training and data analysis, including running research infrastructure on various datasets and fitting different models. Experiment with diverse model architectures and methodologies to identify the most effective approaches for predicting market movements and ensuring that our models are robust, accurate, and capable of handling complex financial data. Create research infrastructure, including writing and refining code to improve our research infrastructure for machine learning. Develop tools and frameworks to streamline research processes, enhancing data processing capabilities, and facilitating integration of advanced analytical techniques into our workflows. Collaborative strategy development, including collaborating with quantitative researchers to discuss and brainstorm ideas for future forecasts and optimizations of our trading algorithms, and exploring new datasets, evaluating potential models, and identifying areas for improvement in our existing methodologies. Code productionizing, including productionizing successful research outcomes by transitioning validated models and algorithms from the research environment into production systems, enabling production systems to generate daily forecasts and execute trades, and writing and maintaining necessary code to ensure seamless deployment and reliable performance of models in live trading scenarios. Interviewing potential candidates, primarily PhD graduates and assessing candidates' technical skills, research capabilities, and interpersonal skills. Applicants may submit a resume by mail to D. E. Shaw & Co., L.P., Two Manhattan West, 375 Ninth Avenue, 52nd Floor, New York, NY 10001, or by email: recruitment-nyc@world.deshaw.com. Submissions must reference

2025-5584 -NYT. No phone calls please. The annual base salary for this position is $250,000 to $300,000. Our compensation and benefits package includes substantial variable compensation in the form of a year-end bonus, guaranteed in the first year of hire, a sign-on bonus, and benefits including medical and prescription drug coverage, 401(k) contribution matching, wellness reimbursement, family building benefits, and a charitable gift match program.

D. E. Shaw is an equal employment opportunity employer and does not discriminate against any applicant on the basis of race, color, religion, gender, gender identity, pregnancy, national origin, age, military service eligibility, veteran status, sexual orientation, marital status, disability, or other category protected by law.