Careers

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Life at NumerixS Quant.

NumerixS Quant is an exciting hybrid environment that blends the best characteristics of business and academia. We hire the brightest minds to bring ideas from the theoretical realm into the applied world. At NumerixS Quant, you’ll work alongside a team of brilliant, creative people with diverse backgrounds from tech companies, finance, and academia. We encourage endless curiosity, meaningful collaboration and have high expectations for everyone on our team.

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collaborative teams
Building great technology and a great culture.

We operate in an intellectually creative yet challenging environment. At NumerixS Quant, you get the opportunity to immerse yourself in your end-to-end research and development strategies. We believe that excellent research requires a quiet, thoughtful work environment combined with collaborative, engaging, on-going discussions with colleagues.

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perks and benefits
We take care of our people.

We offer a competitive employee benefits package, which includes:

medical

Medical & Dental

pension

Pension Matching

flexible-hours

Flexible Hours

vacation

Vacation

nespresso

Nespresso Coffee

wellness

Wellness Subsidy

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Semi-Casual Dresscode

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Friday Treats

 
opportunities
Join the NumerixS Quant team.

Joining our team means you’ll be working with a complex, self-motivated, intelligent group of individuals. No matter where you’re from, we welcome exceptional applicants of all types to join our team.

vancouver, bc canada
Quantitative Analyst (PhD Required)

We are a data-driven company with a collegial atmosphere looking for team members who can do great work for application in the algorithmic trading industry.

Our ideal candidate is a recent (or soon-to-be) PhD graduate with experience in an academic or post-doc research workplace looking to apply their capabilities to the real world. Our approach is to train successful candidates about our industry, markets and products, as such we are looking for people seeking their initial foray in the financial markets.

About you

You are motivated by intellectual challenges, curiosity, and solving problems. You are performance and results driven. You continuously seek to understand new and better approaches to analyze and interpret ‘dirty’ data to improve investment results. You enjoy coding. You love to see your work put into practice. For individuals currently living outside of Vancouver, we offer relocation assistance.

What You'll Do
  • Drive projects to completion that will contribute to an existing trading strategy
  • Write code to automate every aspect of the trading system
  • Code in Python and use relational time-series databases (kdb+)
  • Analyze ‘dirty’ data sets to identify possible investment signals
  • Develop predictive quantities to improve existing trading strategy
  • Take charge of your own projects, while collaborating with your colleagues and with the portfolio manager
What You Bring
  • Mandatory: Ph.D. in mathematics, physics or related fields in quantitative disciplines with a Masters in the hard sciences (including if you will be graduating with a Ph.D. within the next 12 months)
  • Highly analytical, keen attention to detail
  • Innate curiosity and an exceptional critical thinker who is results-oriented
  • Ability to implement your ideas in code
  • Programming experience in Python
  • Demonstrated expertise in statistics and mathematical modeling
  • Strong communications skills (both verbal and written)
  • Thrive in a performance-based environment
  • Require excellence of yourself and in the work you produce
Nice to Have
  • Experience participating in national or international math, physics or computer science competitions is strongly preferred
  • Strong experience with C++, R and kdb+ and working in a Unix environment
  • Legally entitled to work in Canada (however for exceptional candidates we can provide immigration assistance)
How to Apply

Apply online today to see if you're our newest Quantitative Researcher!

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vancouver, bc canada
Quantitative Developer C++ (Masters or PhD)

We are a data-driven company with a collegial atmosphere looking for performance-driven team members who can do great work for application in the algorithmic trading industry.

Our ideal candidate is a Masters or PhD graduate, with at least 1 years’ experience in industry, academic or post-doc research workplace who has demonstrated an ability to drive projects to completion.

While C++ is a mandatory requirement for this role, we are not looking for coders or pure computer science graduates. We are looking for people with critical thinking and research skills who also have a level of C++ competency and can move projects to completion.

About you

You are motivated by intellectual challenges, curiosity, and solving problems. You are performance and results driven. You enjoy coding and love to see your research put into practice. For individuals currently living outside of Vancouver, we offer relocation assistance.

What You'll Do
  • Drive projects to completion that will contribute to an existing trading strategy
  • Design, build, test and support robust C++ applications in particular for live data feed processing
  • Write code to automate every aspect of the trading system
  • Build and maintain pre and post trade tooling
  • Design and build applications for data feed processing
  • Code in C++, Python and use relational time-series databases (kdb+)
  • Analyze ‘dirty’ data sets to identify possible investment signals
  • Take charge of your own projects, while collaborating with your colleagues and with the portfolio manager
What You Bring
  • Mandatory: Masters or Ph.D. in mathematics, physics or related fields in quantitative disciplines (including if you will be graduating with a Ph.D. within the next 12 months).
  • Mandatory: 1 year of C++ experience and C++ competency
  • Highly analytical, keen attention to detail
  • Experience with real time Linux
  • Strong analysis and design skills and knowledge of C++ data structures
  • Innate curiosity and an exceptional critical thinker who is result-oriented.
  • Ability to implement your ideas in code
  • Demonstrated expertise in statistics and mathematical modelling
  • Strong communications skills (both verbal and written)
  • Thrive in a performance-based environment
  • Require excellence of yourself and in the work you produce
Nice to Have
  • Experience participating in national or international math, physics or computer science competitions is strongly preferred
  • Strong experience with R and kdb+ and working in a Unix environment
  • Legally entitled to work in Canada (however for exceptional candidates we can provide immigration assistance)
How to Apply

Apply online today to see if you're our newest Quantitative Researcher!

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vancouver, bc canada
Office Manager (Strong HR Experience)

NumerixSQuant is a high-performance team of post-grads and Ph.D.'s in Physics, Math, Engineering and Computer Science that uses data, technology and innovative research to create sophisticated quantitative trading strategies.

About you

You are a proactive, problem-solving, and operationally minded professional with over 10+ years of experience overseeing the office of a small, dynamic company. Your primary focus is on HR functions, including recruitment (ideally of technical experts). You thrive in a mission-critical environment working with high-performance staff, and excel at ensuring the team can meet its objective.

What You'll Do HR Functions
  • Manage the recruiting process including on-line assessment tools, scheduling meetings, interviews, and travel arrangements to ensure a high-performing team.
  • Manage and execute new employee onboarding, including relaying employee performance feedback both during and beyond the 3 month-probationary period.
  • Oversee all end-to-end HR functions including reviews for employees, documentation for reviews/performance, implementing PIP if required, feedback, and conflict resolution.
  • Records management for employees and annual reporting, including immigration and work permit requirements when applicable.
  • Liaise and coordinate with external advisors/resources, such as immigration and employment lawyers.
  • Manage HR and employee-related technology, including subscription tools and website-related administration.

What You'll Do Administrative Functions
  • Identify and address administrative issues with resourcefulness and efficient problem-solving.
  • Support the CLO and CFO with annual corporate and compliance duties, as well as other areas as required.
  • Handle communication with external providers including follow-ups, problem resolution and real-time escalation.
  • Handle emails, phone calls, mail, and internal communications.
  • Oversee office maintenance and upkeep, including office supplies and healthy snacks.
  • Ensure office equipment (printers and computers) are functional and follow-up with any IT-related needs.
  • Keep team members organized for attending events or conferences.
What You Bring
  • 10+ years’ experience as an office manager with full cycle HR capabilities (recruiting to hiring to firing).
  • Completion of post-secondary education.
  • Experience working both autonomously and collaboratively in in a small, high-performance team environment.
  • Sophisticated interpersonal skills to tactfully work with external providers, the PhD team, and leadership.
  • Ability to handle conflict and deal with challenging situations that arise.
  • Work unobtrusively with the technical team, but be able to provide feedback.
  • Independent and results-driven problem solver with a continuous-improvement mindset and knows when to escalate.
  • Excellent planning and prioritization skills with the ability to remain flexible and adaptable to business demands.
  • Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
  • Confidence and experience with G Suite applications and tools.
  • An unflappable attitude with the ability to foster a focused and performance-driven work environment.
  • Always maintain professionalism and utmost confidentiality.

Compensation and Benefits
  • Annual salary from $85,000-$100,000/year, commensurate with experience and skillset.
  • Extended healthcare benefits including dental, vision, paramedical providers (such as physio, etc.) up to $500 per practitioner per year, and an additional $1,000 per year in a Health Care Spending Account.
  • RRSP matching on a dollar-for-dollar basis
How to Apply

McNeill Nakamoto Recruitment Group is the recruitment partner for NumerixSQuant. Please do not contact NumerixSQuant regarding this position.

Individuals meeting the criteria above are encouraged to apply by emailing jobs@mcnak.com with the subject line: Application for NumerixSQuant. Please include a resume with your online application.

vancouver, bc canada
Vendor Manager - Infrastructure and Data for Quant Hedge Fund

We are looking for a Vendor Manager to manage our infrastructure and data vendors to on ensure our vendors perform as required in a timely manner.

As part of a small, lean, highly specialized team of quants, this role requires a tenacious and active approach to managing our infrastructure providers, data vendors and other key relationships.

The person we’re looking for has significant experience with vendor management. It’s a plus if you have experience in the quant hedge fund industry with the data and infrastructure vendors and understands the tight timelines in the quant trading industry.

The right fit is a person who can ‘push back’ and hold our vendors and prime brokers accountable to perform, as well as being able to escalate to the vendor’s senior business people.

Key Responsibilities
  • Own and manage vendor relationships across data, live market data, infrastructure, managed services and prime broker operations teams such as execution and clearing.
  • Act as the primary point of contact for performance monitoring including working closely with the quant and tech teams to ensure vendors provide data and infrastructure services with minimal latency, errors, or downtime.
  • Actively escalate with the vendor’s business people and senior management as required to ensure the vendor’s performance.
  • Maintain visibility into contract and support renewals and license compliance.

Qualifications & Skills
  • Experience: 10+ years in vendor management.
  • Autonomous & Hands-On: Ability to operate independently within a lean team, wearing multiple hats when needed.
  • Problem-Solving: Quick decision-making and troubleshooting skills to resolve vendor-related issues that impact trading operations.
  • Industry Knowledge is Preferred: Understanding of market data vendors, execution platforms, cloud computing, and trading infrastructure.
  • Technical Awareness is Preferred: Understanding of quant fund or systematic trading environments and low-latency infrastructure and connectivity platforms.
  • Education: Bachelor’s degree (or equivalent) in information technology, business administration, or a related field.
How to Apply

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the interview process
Dedicated to finding our ideal candidates.

Interviewing is a crucial part of our hiring process. As we get to know you better, you will have the chance to get to know us better, too. Our interview process is designed to play to the strengths of our ideal candidate. We will ask you technical questions that require complex thought and ask you to talk us through your process as you problem solve.

We want you to be prepared and confident in each stage of the interview process so you are able to show us your very best work. In anticipation of our recruitment process, we’ve outlined how to prepare and what to expect.

step 1
Online Technical Assessment

After we review your application you will be asked to complete a short online test designed to assess your knowledge of relevant subjects such as probability, data analysis, algorithms, and logic questions.

The assessment is 10 multiple choice questions of varying difficulty and you will be given 40 minutes to complete it. Below are 3 examples of the types of problem questions in the test.

  1. A deck of 52 playing cards contains four suits of 13 cards each. If you randomly draw two cards, what is the probability that both cards are the same suit?
  2. The sum of four different positive integers is 200. The largest of these four integers is N. What is the smallest possible value of N?
  3. How many 6-digit binary numbers are there (including those with leading zeros) where 0’s do not appear consecutively?
interview tips
Quiet Space
You will want to be in a quiet place where you can work uninterrupted for 40 minutes.
Materials
Have paper and pens or anything else you might need to work out your answers.
Good Internet Connection
Have a reliable internet connection while taking the online assessment.
Search Engines Are Not Helpful
The questions and answers have been constructed so that the answers are not easily ‘searchable.’
step 2
2-Part Technical Problem Solving Interview

Once you’ve passed the online assessment, you will be invited to schedule an interview with a few of our team members. The majority of these interviews will be conducted over Skype (or phone if there are issues with the internet connection) and will last approximately 2 hours. There will be two 50-minute interviews, with a 10-minute break in between.

This is a technical interview rather than a personal one. Your interviewer will first ask you a few basic questions regarding your academic and professional experience and projects based on your resume. After that, you will be asked a series of questions designed to further test your knowledge and abilities in probability, logic, algorithms, and other relevant subjects.

Please remember that our interviewer wants you to succeed and that talking with them and explaining your understanding of the problem as you go will give you the best possible chance of success.

interview tips
Prepare
These problems are similar in form to the questions from the online assessment but significantly more difficult. We want to be sure you have adequate time so we recommend that you give yourself at least 4 days to review the subjects at hand.
Show Your Work
As you work through the questions, we would like you to "show your work" by talking through your thought process step by step with your interviewer. As you talk through your thought process, we will be able to give you feedback on whether you're headed in the right direction.
step 3
Group Interview

You will be asked to interview with 2-3 other members of the team. This interview is a typical personnel interview and you will not be asked to solve the type of technical problems you worked on in the first two rounds. This is a chance for members of our team to get to know you better and to ask you about your professional and academic experiences and qualifications along with some general knowledge concepts. This is also an opportunity for you to ask us any questions you might have about the company.

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Be Curious
We encourage you to be curious and ask questions during the interview process.
step 4
In-Person Interview to meet the Team

The final stage of interviews is in-person at our Vancouver office. You will spend half a day with our quant team members. During this time you will have either a relevant paper to review in advance of the in-person interview and then while in the office provide a 5-10 minute summary to the quant team of the paper, or similar process with sample data instead of a paper. These interactions will allow you to get a sense of our working culture. If you are currently not living in Vancouver, we will cover travel and accommodation costs for you to come here.

interview tips
Be Yourself
This is a chance for you and our team to get to know one another and get a sense of whether we are a good fit for you.
Check-In
When you arrive at our office, you will be welcomed by our receptionist and they will notify the team you have arrived.
Dress Comfortably
Our team members wear Vancouver business casual attire and we recommend you do too.
step 5
Interview with the Portfolio Manager - Practical Problem Solving

This stage of interviews is conducted by our portfolio manager. This interview will focus on problem-solving involving math and statistical analysis combined with practical application to real-world problems.

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Be Confident
You have passed 4 rounds of interviews already so feel confident moving forward.
step 6
Offer Made.

If you’ve made it this far, congratulations! You have impressed us through a strenuous interview process and we consider you among the best of the best. We look forward to welcoming you to NumerixSQuant.