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Job Description:

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Job Description:

You will be responsible for the development, implementation, and optimisation of systematic trading and pricing models across precious metals markets. The role requires a strong understanding of the dynamics between futures and spot markets, with a particular focus on basis risk, arbitrage relationships, and Exchange for Physicals (EFPs).

Working closely with trading and technology teams, you will play a key role in bringing models from research into production, ensuring robustness, scalability, and performance in live trading environments.

Responsibilities:

• Develop and enhance quantitative models for pricing and systematic trading across precious metals products
• Analyse the relationship between futures and spot markets, including basis dynamics, liquidity considerations, and EFP mechanisms
• Design and implement strategies that capture inefficiencies and optimise execution across electronic markets
• Work with large datasets to perform rigorous statistical analysis, signal generation, and backtesting
• Partner closely with traders to translate market insights into quantitative strategies
• Collaborate with technology teams to deploy models into production systems, ensuring low-latency and high-performance execution
• Continuously monitor, evaluate, and improve model performance in live trading environments
• Contribute to the ongoing development of the team's quantitative research framework and infrastructure

Skills:

• Strong academic background in a quantitative discipline (e.g. Mathematics, Physics, Engineering, Computer Science, or similar)
• Proven experience developing quantitative models within trading, pricing, or market-making environments
• Deep understanding of futures vs. spot market dynamics, including basis risk and arbitrage relationships
• Experience working with large, complex datasets and applying advanced statistical and modelling techniques
• Strong programming skills in Python (essential), including data analysis and numerical libraries
• Experience with KDB+/q and/or Java is highly desirable
• Solid understanding of systematic trading, electronic markets, and market microstructure
• Experience taking models from research through to production deployment