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Job # 6002eFI

Position:   Financial Engineer
Location:  Downtown
Salary Range:  Commensurate with experience

Company Description:  This Company is a proprietary trading firm.

Requirements:  Graduate degree in statistics, math or another quantitative discipline.  Experience developing financial models, preferably related to equities trading.  Experience with high-frequency and/or automated trading is a plus.  Ideal candidate will have at least 5 years of financial markets experience.  Experience with C++ and SQL; familiar with Linux or UNIX.
Highly motivated self-starter.  Flexible, able to multi-task and work under pressure.

Duties:   Play a leadership role in the development and implementation of automated trading strategies.  Propose trading strategies and algorithm enhancements.  Define and implement data collection and data acquisition methods.  Conduct analyses to verify and optimize innovations and enhancements to trading models.  Write functional requirements documentation for use by software developers.  Collaborate closely with software developers in specification process and participate in software testing to ensure successful implementation of functional requirements.  Monitor trading performance and devise improvements.