OpenQuant Newsletter - Edition #28
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
✨ Hudson River Trading - Algorithm Development Intern | a math and technology company firm headquartered in New York City.
✨ Pimco - Quant Research Analyst Intern | an American investment management firm focusing on active fixed-income management worldwide.
✨ Erie Insurance - Data Science Intern | a property and casualty insurance company offering auto, home, business, and life insurance.
✨ Geneva Trading - Quantitative Trader Intern | a leading proprietary trading firm with a history of consistent success in the listed derivatives markets.
Our Top Full-Time Positions
✨ Gelber Group - Junior Trader | a Chicago-based global proprietary trading company and one of the most enduring firms in the industry.
✨ ArrowStreet Capital - Quantitative Developer | a Boston-based investment manager that provides global and international equity investment strategies.
✨ Virtu Financial - Quantitative Developer | a leading global market maker, that generates deep liquidity that helps to create more efficient markets around the world.
✨ Hudson River Trading - Algorithm Developer | a math and technology company firm headquartered in New York City.
Upcoming Events
📆 Berkeley Trading Competition 2024 | the West Coast's premier intercollegiate trading competition hosted by Traders at Berkeley.
📆 9/18 - 9/22, Reflection Projections Conference | the Midwest’s largest student-run tech conference featuring talks from industry leaders, hands-on workshops, and networking events.
Educational Resources
🚀 MIT Probabilistic Systems Analysis & Applied Probability | a lecture series spanning various topics in probability and statistical inference.
🚀 JS Tech Blog - Oxidizing OCaml: Data Race Freedom | a technical article on how to define a statically data-race-free API in multicore OCaml.
🚀 Python Pandas Tutorials | a series of practice problems to master data manipulation in Python using Pandas.
Weekly Quant Puzzles
Question #1 - Probability
A certain disease has an incidence rate of 2%. If the false negative rate is 10% and the false positive rate is 1%, what is the probability that a person who tests positive actually has the disease?
Quote of the Week
“What will limit us is not the possible evolution of technology, but the evolution of human purposes.” - Stephen Wolfram