A multi-billion-dollar China-based quant fund is building a global proprietary trading business on a proven, multi-year system, and hiring a leader to own its AI-driven systematic equities research. This is a real build mandate with direct founder access: you set the research direction, own the book, and hire the team around you.
What you'll do:
- Own systematic equities research end to end, from data and hypothesis through modelling, simulation, portfolio integration and live deployment
- Run your own book and P&L, covering global equities or a focused US or APAC mandate, across equities, ETFs and futures
- Set the bar for validation, data quality, cost modelling and real-world realizability, with quant devs turning your research into production
- Design the team, spot the skill gaps and hire directly into them
- Own the roadmap for data, compute and engineering priorities
What you'll bring:
- Experience exclusively from tier-1 quantitative houses (leading systematic hedge funds or elite proprietary trading firms); a firm requirement
- Strong systematic-equities track record with meaningful AI/ML ownership and clear evidence of research reaching production
- The judgement and appetite to build and lead (a current Lead title helps but isn't essential; standout Senior Researchers/Quants ready to step up are welcome)
- Professional Mandarin (required)
- Bonus points for: ETF experience, though the core mandate is systematic equity trading, not ETF-only
The package:
- Direct report to the founder, with a genuinely flat structure: quants, senior quants and leads, and the founder, and nothing in between
- Access to an exceptional, large-scale GPU research environment, among the best-resourced anywhere for AI-driven work
- Compensation benchmarked to top US and global packages, with relocation support
- Location of your choice: Hong Kong, Singapore, Shanghai or the US
