**About AQR Capital Management **
AQR is a global investment management firm built at the intersection of financial theory and practical application. We strive to deliver superior, long-term results for our clients by seeking to filter out market noise to identify and isolate what matters most, and by developing ideas that stand up to rigorous testing. Underpinning this philosophy is an unrelenting commitment to excellence in technology — powering our insights and analysis. This unique combination has made us leaders in alternative and traditional strategies since 1998.
AQR takes a systematic, research-driven approach, applying quantitative tools to process fundamental information and manage risk. Our clients include institutional investors, such as pension funds, insurance companies, endowments, foundations and sovereign wealth funds, as well as financial advisors.
Your Role:
- Collaborate with various researchers, portfolio managers, risk managers, and traders to improve current and develop new investment strategies.
- Perform statistical and economic research using financial data to improve current and develop new investment strategies in collaboration with existing research teams.
- Analyze financial information to forecast business, industry, and/or economic conditions, in order to inform investment decisions.
- Analyze and interpret data including price, yield, stability, future investment-risk trends, economic influences, and other factors affecting investment programs.
- Develop new statistical, analytical, and machine-learning models to extract alpha from unique data sets.
- Research various aspects of investment strategy implementation including trading cost models, risk models, optimization, and portfolio construction.
- Add features to our proprietary research system to implement new research ideas.
- Support the design and development of research infrastructure for the purpose of conducting economic and statistical research.
- Conduct empirical research and analysis with large data sets.
- Apply econometrics or statistics.
- Program in MATLAB or Python to implement financial models and analyze complex datasets.
What You’ll Bring:
- Requires Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Financial Engineering, Information Engineering, or a related field of study, plus two (2) years of experience with conducting empirical research and analysis with large data sets; econometrics or statistics; and programming in MATLAB or Python to implement financial models and analyze complex datasets.
The salary for this role is $150,000.00 - $180,000.00/year. AQR offers generous benefits: 100% paid Medical, Dental and Vision coverage. Some of the perks at AQR include a monthly cell phone reimbursement; a daily lunch allowance for those in the office; free breakfast, snacks and drinks in our kitchens; commuter benefits; and employee referral program.
AQR is an Equal Opportunity Employer. EEO/VET/DISABILITY