Role:- Quantitative researcher to help build out a new systematic macro (futures, FX, and vol) business. The main focus will be working on mid-frequency alpha strategies. 1. Develop systematic trading models across FX, commodities, fixed income, and equity markets 2. Alpha idea generation, back testing, and implementation 3. Assist in building, maintenance, and continual improvement of production and trading environments 4. Evaluate new datasets for alpha potential 5. Improve existing strategies and portfolio optimization 6. Execution monitoring 7. Be a core contributor to growing the investment process and research infrastructure of the team Requirements:- 1. PhD in mathematics, statistics, physics or other quantitative discipline. 2. Experience in quantitative trading, ideally in FX or futures 3. Experience with alpha research, portfolio construction and optimization 4. Experience building statistical/technical, fundamental, and data driven signals 5. Experience synthesizing predictive signals for both cross-sectional and time-series models 6. Strong experience with data exploration, dimension reduction, and feature engineering 7. Proficiency in Python using the machine learning stack—numpy, pandas, scikit-learn, etc. Apply:- Please send a PDF CV to quants@ekafinance.com