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Department Description

 

The Paul Merage School of Business is one of the leading business schools in the World, consistently ranking in the top 50 across various programs and dimensions. 

 

Position Summary

  • Looking for a research assistant to help with the continue and further development of an automated trading experiment using real dollars
  • Experiment trades stocks and options across up to nine brokerage accounts and uses data to study economics of retail brokerages
  • Project involves automation using both APIs and screen automation as well as reporting of trade information
  • Position allow potentially includes machine learning and AI use to automate report generation from images

 

Required Qualifications

  • Ability to code in Python and other related Languages to connect to APIs
  • Ability to use technology to screen automate trading 
  • Ability to use Machine Learning and AI to help with report automation
  • Willingness to learn some basic financial knowledge
  • Ability to consistently work on the project (trading happens many weekdays)

 

Conditions of Employment:

The University of California, Irvine (UCI) seeks to provide a safe and healthy environment for the entire UCI community. As part of this commitment, all applicants who accept an offer of employment must comply with the following conditions of employment:

Background Check and Live Scan
Employment Misconduct*
Legal Right to work in the United States
Vaccination Policies
Smoking and Tobacco Policy
Drug Free Environment
*Misconduct Disclosure Requirement: As a condition of employment, the final candidate who accepts a conditional offer of employment will be required to disclose if they have been subject to any final administrative or judicial decisions within the last seven years determining that they committed any misconduct; received notice of any allegations or are currently the subject of any administrative or disciplinary proceedings involving misconduct; have left a position after receiving notice of allegations or while under investigation in an administrative or disciplinary proceeding involving misconduct; or have filed an appeal of a finding of misconduct with a previous employer.

The following additional conditions may apply, some of which are dependent upon business unit or job specific requirements.

California Child Abuse and Neglect Reporting Act
E-Verify
Pre-Placement Health Evaluation
Details of each policy may be reviewed by visiting the following page - https://career.uci.edu/faculty-staff/hiring-resources-conditions-of-employment/