Quantitative Research Analyst Needed to Create Market-Beating Mo

Quantitative Research Analyst Needed to Create Market-Beating Models

If you would like to help find new ways to beat the market by ranking stocks more effectively and generating larger returns than market benchmarks, then come join our team. As one of our Quantitative Research Analysts your primary role will be to understand and pull together StarMine's enormous collection of stock data, write sophisticated programs to investigate our hypotheses, and build clearly understandable stock ranking models that will reliably beat the market. If you have the intellectual dexterity and brain power to extract insight from crunching large amounts of data, then working for StarMine is your Nirvana. In this crucial position you will see your quantitative models implemented right away, for real customers, in real products, making real money.

For the second year in a row, StarMine was honored as one of the fastest growing companies in North America according to Inc Magazine. StarMine's research and quantitative stock selection models are extensively used by both quantitative and fundamental portfolio managers at more than 300 of the top asset management firms around the world. StarMine products help them to more efficiently research stocks, monitor their holdings, and generate investment ideas. We are best known for "analyzing the analysts," predicting earnings surprises, and intelligently filtering sell-side research. New offerings provide earnings quality scores on all stocks and overlay intelligent analysis on corporate financial statements. We are a global firm with offices in San Francisco, Boston, New York, London, Tokyo, Hong Kong and Sydney.
REQUIREMENTS
As one of our Quantitative Research Analysts based in San Francisco, you will join a team of highly skilled top-notch quants and develop a backtesting environment for our newest indicators and models by extracting a research data set from a massive database. You will actively participate in the entire research process from developing and testing initial hypotheses to gaining insights from research findings and creatively overcoming any obstacles along the way. Simply put, your mission will be to build and test intuitively satisfying quantitative stock ranking models that work robustly. Your experience with understanding analyst reports, reviewing and dissecting company financial statements, and programming complex financial models will make you our next superstar. If you have tremendous aptitude, are excited about the potential to learn and grow into a research project leader, and want to work for an amazing company, then apply now!

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