Global Markets – Systematic Credit Quantitative Researcher, Associate/VP - Sao Paolo

Team Overview

The Systematic Credit Team is a global, multi-disciplinary market-making group that leverages advanced quantitative methods, technology, and deep market insights to trade corporate bonds, credit derivatives, and Fixed Income ETFs.

Operating at the intersection of financial engineering, machine learning, and high-performance computing, our team in Sao Paulo works in lockstep with global desks in New York, London, and Hong Kong. We design, backtest, and deploy systematic market-making strategies that provide liquidity, capture alpha, and manage risk in historically fragmented and over-the-counter (OTC) credit markets.

Your Impact

As a Quantitative Researcher at the Associate or Vice President level, you will drive the research agenda and infrastructure for our systematic credit market-making strategies. You will take ownership of the end-to-end quantitative pipeline - from sourcing and structuring complex credit datasets to engineering predictive features, building alpha models, and developing the core platforms that democratize signal generation across the broader team.

For candidates entering at the Vice President (VP) level, you will also be expected to lead key architectural decisions for our research platform, mentor junior researchers, and collaborate directly with global trading desks to transition models from research into production.

Key Responsibilities

Alpha Generation & Strategy Development: Conduct rigorous statistical research to identify predictive signals (alphas) across corporate bonds and credit ETFs. Apply advanced time-series analysis, machine learning, and alternative data processing to model credit spread dynamics.

Consolidated Research-Grade Data Framework & Pipeline: Architect and build a consolidated, high-performance, research-grade data framework and pipeline to back signal generation. Ingest, clean, and normalize diverse, noisy credit datasets (e.g., TRACE, dealer runs, electronic communication network feeds) to establish a robust "Golden Source" for quantitative research.

AI-Driven Self-Service Signal Backtesting Platform: Design, develop, and maintain an open, scalable, AI-based platform that allows researchers and traders to seamlessly upload signal ideas, leverage machine learning for automated parameter tuning, and backtest them against a standardized, point-in-time, and bias-free simulation framework.

Quantitative Infrastructure & Tooling: Collaborate with quantitative developers to build and scale backtesting engines, simulation frameworks, and production-grade analytics libraries. Ensure research code is modular, well-tested, and optimized for high-performance computing environments.

Required Experience & Education

Education: Master’s or PhD degree in a highly quantitative STEM discipline (e.g., Mathematics, Physics, Computer Science, Statistics, Operations Research, or Financial Engineering).

Experience:

Associate Level: 3+ years of professional experience in quantitative research, financial engineering, or data science.

VP Level: 6+ years of experience with a proven track record of developing systematic trading strategies or advanced quantitative models (ideally within Fixed Income, Credit, or Macro).

Core Competencies & Technical Skills

Quantitative & Fixed Income Foundations: Deep understanding of probability, statistics, linear algebra, and time-series analysis, paired with a strong conceptual grasp of bond pricing, yield-to-price conversions, credit spreads, and interest rate risk (duration/convexity).

Advanced Programming: Advanced proficiency in Python (Pandas, NumPy, SciPy, Scikit-Learn) with a software engineering mindset - combining rapid mathematical prototyping with clean, modular, and well-documented code. Object-oriented programming in C++ or Java is highly desirable.

Data Engineering & Quantitative Toolkit: Experience managing large-scale, noisy, and unstructured datasets using SQL and high-performance time-series databases (e.g., KDB+/Q, ClickHouse). Proficient in applying machine learning techniques (regression, tree-based models, neural networks) to financial data.

Intellectual Honesty & Collaborative Communication: Driven to understand market mechanics rather than just curve-fitting. Possesses the analytical honesty to challenge assumptions, iterate on failed hypotheses, and translate complex quantitative concepts into clear, actionable insights for global stakeholders.

Preferred Qualifications

Direct experience researching systematic corporate bond or credit derivatives strategies.

Experience building self-service quantitative research platforms, APIs, or shared backtesting frameworks.

Hands-on experience with KDB+/Q or managing large-scale, tick-level financial datasets.

We Offer Best-In-Class Benefits

Healthcare & Medical Insurance

We offer a wide range of health and welfare programs that vary depending on office location. These generally include medical, dental, short-term disability, long-term disability, life, accidental death, labor accident and business travel accident insurance.

Holiday & Vacation Policies

We offer competitive vacation policies based on employee level and office location. We promote time off from work to recharge by providing generous vacation entitlements and a minimum of three weeks expected vacation usage each year.

Financial Wellness & Retirement

We assist employees in saving and planning for retirement, offer financial support for higher education, and provide a number of benefits to help employees prepare for the unexpected. We offer live financial education and content on a variety of topics to address the spectrum of employees’ priorities.

Health Services

We offer a medical advocacy service for employees and family members facing critical health situations, and counseling and referral services through the Employee Assistance Program (EAP). We provide Global Medical, Security and Travel Assistance and a Workplace Ergonomics Program. We also offer state-of-the-art on-site health centers in certain offices.

Fitness

To encourage employees to live a healthy and active lifestyle, some of our offices feature on-site fitness centers. For eligible employees we typically reimburse fees paid for a fitness club membership or activity (up to a pre-approved amount).

Child Care & Family Care

We offer on-site child care centers that provide full-time and emergency back-up care, as well as mother and baby rooms and homework rooms. In every office, we provide advice and counseling services, expectant parent resources and transitional programs for parents returning from parental leave. Adoption, surrogacy, egg donation and egg retrieval stipends are also available.

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Opportunity Overview

CORPORATE TITLEAssociate

OFFICE LOCATION(S)Sao Paulo

JOB FUNCTIONQuantitative Engineering

DIVISIONGlobal Banking & Markets