YOUR ROLE

Your Role & How we work

As our Junior Quant Researcher (m/f/d), you own alpha signals and risk models for Europe’s best performing technology funds and a concentrated list of tomorrow’s leading tech companies. You report to Benjamin Kauper (Director Systematic Strategies & Risk) and join a team of three quants working directly with Portfolio Management and Fundamental Research.

Your priorities in this role will include:

Signals that move capital. You own the alpha-signal and risk-model lifecycle for that watchlist, in benchmark-independent, highly active portfolios that turn over three to four times a year.
Quantamental proof work. You test the fundamental team's hypotheses systematically. What holds out-of-sample becomes a signal we trade, what does not gets removed based on factual evidence.
70 / 30. You spend roughly 70% of your week on research, idea generation and backtesting, and 30% on production code that puts the models into the live environment.
Time series over noise. You turn economic hypotheses into testable time-series models: stationarity, autocorrelation, AR/MA/ARIMA, regularized regression, etc.
Unstructured text to signal. You build in Python and SQL on AWS with a Snowflake DWH, and use LLMs to turn alternative data signals into tradable signals.

The experience you bring

First full-time experience (1-2 years) in quantitative research or data science in the investment domain, or several substantial internships in those areas during your studies.
A completed Master's or PhD in mathematics, physics, computer science, statistics, economics or finance, with excellent results.
Command of the statistical models and frameworks we use daily: probability, regression, time-series analysis, and first exposure to machine learning.
Strong coding skills in Python and SQL.
Experience with leveraging LLMs to conduct research, designing your own investment strategies or building personal side projects.
You communicate fluently in English, our working language. Fluency in German is not required.

2 reasons why you should not apply

You want to maintain and monitor models someone else built? This is a role for builders: you develop and deploy what shapes our investment decisions, and own it from hypothesis through backtest to production.
You are looking for high-frequency trading, or for purely systematic research? Our funds have long-only strategies and we follow a quantamental strategy equally leveraging fundamental analysis and systematic.

Your mindset

You are passionate about stocks, financial markets, and technology.
You are AI-pilled and actively think about automating and advancing your own remit.
You are a curious person with a strong willingness to learn and consistently improve.
You are a team player, seeking to thrive in a collaborative, and high-performance environment.
You think outside of the box and and are comfortable with generating new, ambiguous ideas.

YOUR PROFILE

What we offer

Become part of a unique success story in European asset management, with real influence over a concentrated, high-conviction portfolio.
Work with terabytes of data, advanced research tools, and proprietary alternative data you will not find at traditional asset managers.
A motivated, international team of 15 nationalities with flat hierarchies and direct access to our management team and investors.
Day 1 ownership of challenging, varied work, a steep learning curve, and a transparent, appreciative feedback culture.

OUR BENEFITS

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About us

BIT Capital combines the expertise of an industry leader in asset management with the agility of a young tech company. With its investment products, BIT Capital enables investors to participate in the future growth of the technology-driven world. The guiding principle is always to be “Ahead of the Curve" - anticipating technology mega trends and identifying the major investment opportunities of the future before they emerge. The BIT Capital team expertly navigates a constantly evolving landscape of complex technology sectors, identifying tomorrow's technology leaders at an early stage on behalf of its investors. The experienced team currently consists of around 40 professionals, including an investment team of 20 financial market experts, sector specialists, data engineers and software developers. The flagship fund, BIT Global Technology Leaders, has received multiple performance awards and is one of the highest performing equity funds in Europe.

As part of our recruitment process, we use digital tools that incorporate AI-supported functionalities to structure and review application materials and to support the selection process. The results are used solely as support for the initial screening and are always reviewed by responsible personnel. Decisions regarding an offer of employment or a rejection are not made solely by automated means.

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