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Xantium is looking for passionate, meticulous professionals with excellent analytical ability across a wide spectrum of roles. Whether you are just starting your career, looking to move from another industry into finance, or exploring the next step in your finance career, we want to hear from you.  Right now, we are excited about hiring for the following roles:

If you're interested in multiple roles, please apply to the one you feel is most relevant. We will redirect your application if a different role would be a better fit.

Quantitative Developers

At Xantium, our Quantitative Developers build software and frameworks that power our quantitative trading.

Examples of recent projects:

• Providing fast market data to a trading system
• Building an integrated research and execution framework for fast predictors
• Creating simulation and research frameworks in a cloud environment
• Providing a robust research framework for a new asset class

Our tech stack is a blend of Python and C++ that runs both on-prem and in the cloud.

Compensation: Quantitative Developers in New York can expect to earn $125,000 to $225,000+ base. Total compensation also includes a large annual bonus which is guaranteed in year one and based on employee and firm performance thereafter.

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Quantitative Researchers

Quantitative Researchers at Xantium are responsible for researching and developing mathematical models used to identify investment and trading opportunities in the global financial markets.

The process is collaborative, involving direct access to and guidance from senior quantitative portfolio managers and engineers with years of experience across all major markets. Our Quantitative Researchers learn a range of skills including various research techniques, how to work with different types of data, markets and asset classes.

Examples of responsibilities include:

• Analyzing and evaluating financial and alternative datasets
• Researching existing and developing new techniques in machine learning
• Researching, developing and implementing quantitative trading signals/models
• Developing and maintaining modeling infrastructure
• Supporting production trading operations

Quantitative Researcher applicants should have a PhD (or equivalent) that involved intense mathematics or statistics. We may consider candidates without PhDs, provided they can demonstrate strong competitive math backgrounds and strong academic records.

Compensation: Quantitative Researchers in New York can expect to earn $150,000 to $225,000+ base. Total compensation also includes a large annual bonus which is guaranteed in year one and based on employee and firm performance thereafter.

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Network Engineer

The Xantium Group seeks a Network Engineer to join a successful and growing team. This person will build and maintain Xantium’s declaratively configured network infrastructure, ensuring consistency which is critical to the success of the business.

The Network Engineer will collaborate with quantitative researchers and developers in both the U.S. and the U.K. The successful candidate will be a self-starter with excellent troubleshooting skills and an ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment.

Examples of responsibilities include:

• Delivering colocation sites with fast connections to exchanges.
• Optimizing the network receive path for Linux trading hosts.
• Delivering robust and reliable cloud setups for quantitative research.

Compensation: Network Engineers in New York can expect to earn $175,000 to $225,000+ base. Total compensation also includes a large annual bonus which is guaranteed in year one and based on employee and firm performance thereafter.

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