Where: Toronto, Canada, Full time only, on site only. You must be eligible to work in Canada.
Who: K2 and Associates. We're one of Canada's more successful hedge funds over the past 13 years.
----------------------------- What you'll do -----------------------------
You will help build out the statistics pipeline and machine learning models to power an algorithmic trading infrastructure. You'll build hidden Markov Models to detect patterns in the equities markets.
1. Build models
2. Back test models
3. We're lucky enough to have already figured out what step 3 is, apply your models in the markets.
4. PROFIT!!!
----------------------------- Who you are -----------------------------
You are a statistician or speech recognition expert who can turn a model into working code. You are comfortable with any programming language, you can model in what ever language you like.
----------------------------- What's in it for you... -----------------------------
- a hedge fund is just like a startup except that everyone gets a market salary and bonuses. If' you've always wanted to join a startup but you're too good/in demand to take a pay cut then let's chat.
- get paid to learn algorithmic trading
- be able to invest in our fund
- onsite chef for lunches
If you love a challenge please reach out to me at REDACTED_EMAIL or my email in my profile.
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