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PhD Mathematician for Fixed Income Hedging

Role Description

The position is a full-time remote role attending fixed income hedging for a realty firm. Your position will entail applying standardized mathematical formulas for fixed income hedging, analyzing complex data sets, conducting simulations, collaborating with an interdisciplinary team, and monitoring risk in real-world scenarios across 23/6 CME GlobeX sessions.

 

Particulars tasks you'll handle include effectuating client-side KPI derivations with industry standardized formulas, fitting spline regression models, applying cross-validation, deploying mean reversion to smooth a yield curve, using linear algebra to solve systems of equations, and overseeing process improvements.

 

Duties

  • Script ETL Processes.
  • Navigate API documentation.
  • Apply calculus to derive KPIs from immutable observable variables.
  • Develop smoothing and penalty functions to optimize chi-squared values.
  • Use Cross Validation to improve goodness of fit.
  • Integrate recent observations into an adaptive ARIMA.
  • Penalize datas with partial stochastic differentials.
  • Solve big systems with advanced algebras.
  • Use systems of equations to select combinations that minimize a given objective function.
  • Applying thread locking and similar concepts to ensure data integrity.

 

Qualifications

  • Ph.D. in Mathematics, Physics, Electrical Engineering, Financial Engineering, or a related field
  • Proficiency in analytics, with a focus on working with large datasets and deriving insights
  • Experience in Computer Science, including programming and algorithm development
  • Familiarity with statistical analysis and quantitative methods
  • Strong communication skills and the ability to work effectively in a remote team environment
  • Knowledge of fixed income markets and financial instruments is an advantage

 

Requirements

  • Proven experience as a mathematician.
  • Knowledge of analytics tools and techniques.
  • Familiarity with modeling tools like StatsModels and SciPy.
  • Skills designing experiments and evaluating hypotheses.
  • Knowledge of data warehousing concepts.
  • No conflicting no-competes.
  • Ability to follow instructions from your supervisor and refrain from creative impulse.
  • Willingness to sign narrow NDA with the company's owner, who licenses his copyrighted works to company as a statutorily authorized dual trader.

 

Please send your resume. If you have appropriate qualifications DAM's owner will reach out to schedule an interview.