Head of Quantitative Research

Head of Quantitative Research

QuantumLight | Greater London, ENG, GB

Posted 21 days ago

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Description

About The Role


Quantum Light is looking for a world-class AI Researcher with a quantitative trading background to join a newly forming team. This is a foundational hire: you will lead our AI research on developing a quantitative investment strategy for VC.


About The Role


Quantum Light is looking for a world-class AI Researcher with a quantitative trading background to join a newly forming team. This is a foundational hire: you will lead our AI research on developing a quantitative investment strategy for VC.


What You'll Do



  • Bring deep technical expertise in AI training — including model architecture, training schedule, objective functions, use of RL, etc

  • Critically evaluate and improve our existing pipeline

  • Apply your quant trading background to develop new sources of signal for VC

  • Build out AI quant research function as it scales


Must-have


What We're Looking For



  • Track record of training complex neural networks for production — not just fine-tuning or applying pre-trained weights

  • Quantitative trading or research background

  • Good understanding of PyTorch internals, GPU architecture, quantization, performance tuning, etc

  • Great knowledge of modern neural network architectures


Nice-to-have



  • Track record of developing alphas that make money in a hedge fund

  • Experience with mid-frequency and cross-sectional trading strategies

  • Technical leadership skills


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