Quantitative Trading & Research - Portfolio - Associate

🏢 JP Morgan
📍 New York, United StatesFull-timeOn-site
📅 Posted: 2mo ago🔄 Updated: 2mo ago
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The Quantitative Trading & Research team is seeking a highly motivated Associate or Vice President to join their New York office. This role involves designing and developing quantitative models for pricing and managing XVA, Margin, and Counterparty Credit Risk, from research to deployment. Responsibilities include partnering with Trading and Risk to translate business needs into quantitative solutions, owning end-to-end delivery with Technology, and driving model governance. The ideal candidate will have an advanced degree in a quantitative field (or Bachelor's with 2+ years of experience), a strong understanding of probability, statistics, and derivatives pricing, and proficiency in Python and/or C++.
Required Skills
Information Technology
PythonC++
Science & Research
Probability TheoryStatistics
Other
ownership
Soft Skills & Professional Competencies
Problem SolvingCommunication
Nice to have:
Other
agentic AI
Information Technology
Data Pipelines
Business, Sales & Management
Product Development
🎁 Benefits & Perks
comprehensive health care coverage, on-site health and wellness centers, a retirement savings plan, backup childcare, tuition reimbursement, mental health support, financial coaching
Requirements
Candidates should have an advanced degree in a quantitative field, or a Bachelor's with 2+ years of relevant experience. Strong understanding of probability, statistics, and derivatives pricing is required, along with demonstrated ability to develop new quantitative approaches. Proficiency in Python and/or C++ is necessary. Excellent communication and problem-solving skills are essential.
Description

We’re seeking a highly motivated Associate or Vice President to join our Quantitative Trading & Research (QTR) team in New York. The role blends quantitative development with close engagement with Trading and Risk to deliver impactful solutions.

 

Position Summary:

As an Associate or  Vice President on the Quantitative Trading & Research team, you will partner closely with both XVA trading and Counterparty Credit risk. You will help in developing of quantitative models to enhance pricing and risk management.

 

Job responsibilities

  • Design and develop models/analytics for pricing and management of XVA, Margin and Counterparty Credit Risk, from research to product deployment.
  • Partner with Trading and Risk to translate business needs into quantitative solutions,  provide ongoing production support including incident triage and root-cause analysis.
  • Own end-to-end delivery with Technology on implementation, testing and deployment.
  • Drive model governance and continuous improvement in partnership with Model Validation, including documentation, controls, and ongoing performance monitoring.

 

Required qualification, capabilities, and skills

  • Advanced degree in a quantitative field (or Bachelor’s with 2+ years relevant experience).
  • Strong understanding of probability/statistics and derivatives pricing; demonstrated ability to develop new quantitative approaches.
  • Strong programming in Python and/or C++; 
  • Clear communicator with strong ownership, problem-solving skills, and ability to thrive in a fast-paced, collaborative environment.

 

Preferred qualification, capabilities, and skills

  • Agentic AI and data pipeline/processing experience a plus.
  • Product development lifecycle experience a plus.
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