Quantitative Developer, Multi-Asset Quantitative Solutions
- San Francisco, CA
Your Opportunity Charles Schwab Investment Management (CSIM), is the investment advisor for the Schwab Funds mutual funds and ETFs and also includes our Schwab Managed Portfolios, Windhaven Investments and ThomasPartners. With over $215 billion in 13 funds with 15 share classes, CSIM is the eighth largest manager of money market funds (MMFs) in the US. The MMFs serve as a key cash products offering for many of Schwab's clients and the clients of Registered Investment Advisors who custody their assets at Schwab.
We are looking for a Quantitative Developer passionate about frameworks and techniques that drive our investment process. As part of our investment research team, you will be an integral part of understanding our investment products from end-to-end, from how the raw data is ingested to how the clients invest in the final products.
What you are good at
- Collaborating closely with engineers, quantitative and fundamental researchers to understand how to apply technology to drive insight into sophisticated markets
- Developing frameworks, primarily in Python, for building, back-testing and monitoring products
- You maintain large-scale financial data and apply risk models to build equity investment strategies
- Analyzing and importing unstructured data to provide outstanding insights
What you have
- Driven, self-motivator with attention to detail who is able to define and seek out problems
- Experience with financial data and detailed trading strategies
- Firm grasp of applied statistical concepts and techniques, including probability, regression and time series analysis
- Experience with one or more of Python, Java or C++, and the ability to write clean, maintainable, robust code
- Bachelors Required, Masters or PhD in a quantitative field preferred
- 3-5 years of demonstrated ability working on a development team required
- Familiarity with databases including SQL
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