Role : Quantitative Engineer

Location: Reston, VA or Plano, TX

Quantitative Engineer

Role and Responsibilities
In this role, the candidate will be responsible for business analytics, testing and benchmarking production code and runs, as well as code development.

As a quantitative engineer, the candidate is expected to

• Implement and validate economic models.
• Create business analytics reports.
• Test and validation of production codes and runs.
• Use leading edge tools such as R Library, python, combined with Finance / Mortgage tools suite.
• Work in an Agile, collaborative environment, partnering with other engineers, scientist, consultants and database administrators of all backgrounds and disciplines to bring analytical rigor to the production operations.
• Writing programs to cleanse and integrate data in an efficient and reusable manner, and evaluating modeling results.
• Communicate with businesses to understand and define business needs, providing analytical solutions.
• Communicate results to technical and non-technical audiences

Remote working option is possible but onsite is preferred.

Required Technical and Professional Expertise

• Proficient at least one of the statistical programming language such as R, Python, Java, experience with Selenium is a plus.
• Great problem-solving skills, by taking a different approach to, debugging, troubleshooting, and designing & implementing solutions to complex technical issues.
• Strong fundamentals in Mathematics and Computer Science (algorithms)
• Strong technical and analytical abilities, a knack for driving impact and growth, and some experience with programming/scripting in a language such as Java or Python.

Preferred Technical and Professional Expertise

• Proficient in Python/R. Java is a plus. Have basic knowledge on fix income and finances.
• Basic understanding of Cloud and front end is a plus (AWS, Sagemaker, MongoDB, Django, etc)
• has relevant work experience with a proven track record. Bachelor's degree is good, but masters & PhD in computer science/ Finances/Economics/Engineering/mathematics/physics/statistics or related field is preferred.

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