OpenQuant Newsletter - Edition #15
Quant Jobs & Internships, Upcoming Events, Puzzles and More!
Hello, fellow Quants!
Welcome to our weekly newsletter, where we share the latest jobs/internships, educational opportunities, and upcoming events in quantitative finance.
Here’s what we have on this week’s agenda:
Internships
Full-Time Jobs
Upcoming Events
Educational Resources
Quant Puzzle
Our Top Internships
✨ TransMarket Group - Quantitative Trader Intern | a Global Proprietary Trading Firm that utilizes quantitative mathematical modeling and technology.
✨ Old Mission Capital - Desktop Support Intern | a global proprietary trading firm that leverages quantitative research and state-of-the-art technology.
✨ Capstone Investment Advisors - 2024 Quantitative Risk Intern | an alternative investment management firm operating across a range of derivatives-based strategies.
✨ Block - Machine Learning Engineer Intern (Fall 2023) | helps millions of sellers run their businesses from secure credit card processing to point-of-sale solutions.
Our Top Full-Time Positions
✨ Vise - Quantitative Engineer | a startup that builds software that empowers financial advisors to build, manage, and explain personalized portfolios.
✨ TransMarket Group - Junior Quantitative Trader | a Global Proprietary Trading Firm that utilizes quantitative mathematical modeling and technology.
✨ Goldman Sachs - Model Risk Analyst | a leading global investment banking, securities, and investment management firm.
✨ Arrowstreet Capital - Quantitative Developer | a Boston-based investment manager that provides global and international equity investment strategies
✨ Hudson River Trading - Quantitative Analyst - Credit Derivatives | a math & tech company focused on solving difficult trading problems.
Upcoming Events
📆 6/20 - Princeton Stochastic Control and Financial Engineering Workshop | a discussion on the methods, modeling, and numerical simulation issues in stochastic control and Financial Engineering.
Educational Resources
🚀 LabMl.ai | a collection of annotated Pytorch implementations of significant machine learning research papers.
🚀 Zetamath | An ios app to practice mental math and sequence questions for quantitative finance interview prep.
🚀 Two Sigma - Software Engineering Practice Interview | A mock interview with a prospective software engineer candidate applying to Two Sigma.
Weekly Quant Puzzles
Question #1 - Sequences
55, 30, 14, 5, 1, ?
81, -54, 36, -24, ?
Question #2 - Statistics
There are 100 noodles in a soup bowl. You are blindfolded and told to take the ends of some noodles and connect them (each end is chosen with equal probability). You do this until there are no more free ends. What is the expected number of circles created in this fashion?
Quote of the Week
“One of the first things taught in introductory statistics textbooks is that correlation is not causation. It is also one of the first things forgotten.” - Thomas Sowell