Job Summary
Equities Asia EMM is a systematic market making business covering Equities cash and futures. As an automated trading business, EMM manages both the financial and operational risks of this business.
Candidates joining the desk are engaged in market making and its related functions in Asia Equities and related products.
The desk offers liquidity in a principal capacity to clients of the Execution Services Franchise, other principal internal desks and directly to the markets.
Team members combine their mathematical, programming and market expertise to build and generate systematic strategies. The desk looks for individuals with strong mathematical skillsets, programming experience, and who are motivated to get hands on experience with algorithmic trading.
RESPONSIBILITIES AND QUALIFICATIONS
Principal Responsibilities
Conduct research on trading cost models, liquidity models, risk models, portfolio construction methodology, flow analysis and microstructure.
Conduct signal generation research mining large datasets either market data or internal flow data.
Improve implementation of market making and hedging strategies.
Understand the regulatory and supervisory environment and demonstrate ownership of our obligations and responsibilities
Experience / Skills
Past experience with building quantitative signals in equities or fixed income
Proven ability to analyze data and draw useful commercial conclusions
Track record of learning new skills and adapting to new technologies
Demonstrated understanding of, and engineering of, a safe operating environment, particularly regarding the control environment around electronic trading
Understanding and management of operational risks including identifying and remediating such risks
Programming experience in Python, C++ or Java
Masters, or PhD in a scientific or quantitative discipline 
