OpenQuant Newsletter - Edition #16
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
✨ Cubist Systematic Strategies - Data Intern | Cubist designs and implements systematic, computer-driven trading strategies based on rigorous research.
✨ Ramp - Software Engineer Intern | Ramp is building the next generation of finance tools to save businesses time and money with every click.
✨ Cohere.ai - Machine Learning Intern Fall 2023 | Cohere’s mission is to build machines that understand the world and to make them safely accessible to all.
Our Top Full-Time Positions
✨ Flow Traders - Junior Software Engineer, Python | a market maker that uses high-frequency and quantitative trading strategies.
✨ Chatham Financial - Quantitative Analyst - Private Equity | a leader in financial risk management, delivering advisory & technology solutions for debt and derivatives.
✨ NatWest Group - U.S Options Trader | a British banking and insurance holding company that operates a wide variety of banking brands.
✨ Virtu Financial - Quantitative Strategist | a leading global market maker, Virtu generates deep liquidity that helps to create more efficient markets around the world.
✨ BlackRock - Associate Data Scientist | one of the world's preeminent asset management firms and a premier provider of investment management
Upcoming Events
📆 6/14 - Quant Insights Conference: Black-Scholes 50th Anniversary | a series of talks covering the development, applications, and impact of the Black Scholes model.
📆 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
🚀 How Not to Be Wrong: The Power of Mathematical Thinking | A great, lightweight, introduction to applied math and probability.
🚀 Why Mojo? | An article detailing the new Mojo programming language and how it will accelerate the future of machine learning.
🚀 Mode SQL Tutorial | Master SQL through this free, interactive online course offered by Mode analytics.
Weekly Quant Puzzles
Question #1 - Mathematics
Given an 8x8 chessboard, how many ways can you place coins on the board such that there are an even number of coins in each row and in each column?
Question #2 - Computer Science
Suppose you were given 30GB of financial time series data. On your computer you only have 1GB of memory available. How would you go about sorting this data?
Quote of the Week
“A basic rule of mathematical life: if the universe hands you a hard problem, try to solve an easier one instead, and hope the simple version is close enough to the original problem that the universe doesn’t object.”
― Jordan Ellenberg, How Not To Be Wrong