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Five Rings Capital

Experienced/Lateral – Quantitative Researcher

Category
Quantitative Analysis
Experience Level
Experienced
Location
New York
Job Type
Full-time
Posted
December 2025
The role

Job description

About Five Rings

Five Rings is a proprietary trading firm founded with a vision of combining strategy, innovation and technology to succeed in today’s global markets. With offices in New York, Boca Raton, London and Amsterdam, Five Rings trades in various domestic and international markets, both established and esoteric. Our team constantly seeks new opportunities, analyzes their risks and rewards, and creates strategies and tools to capitalize on them.

We have an open culture and encourage the flow of knowledge and ideas between all areas of the firm.

About the Role

Five Rings gives people as much responsibility as possible, as quickly as it can be earned.

  • Identify new opportunities in the markets we trade
  • Construct or enhance market models
  • Develop analyses and simulations
  • Implement models in our trading systems
  • Test models in real time
  • Collaborate with traders and software developers

About You

  • Must possess a Bachelor's degree in computer science, economics, mathematics, physics, statistics, or another qualifying field
  • Minimum of two years' work experience involving the development of quantitative trading strategies in futures and/or equities
  • Experience conducting data analysis involving large financial datasets to find intraday signals for mid- to high-frequency trading
  • Exceptionally mathematically proficient
  • Possesses a hunger to work on some of the most complex mathematical problems
  • Risk taker and problem solver
  • Explores innovative thinking and analytical methodologies
  • Extremely detail-oriented and thrives in a fast-paced, highly collaborative environment
  • Eager to continue to learn and grow your skills
  • Proficiency in statistical languages and/or packages in R, python, or similar

Annual Base Salary: $300,000.  Total compensation packages are comprised of base salary and a discretionary bonus.

This description was published by Five Rings Capital. Applications are handled on their careers site: we are not the employer and cannot process them.
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Five Rings Capital
Five Rings is a quantitative proprietary trading firm founded on the idea of combining strategy, innovation and technology to compete in global markets. It trades across "a multitude of exciting…