Intern Quantitative Analyst: Global Macro Strategies

QuantCube Technology has been using artificial intelligence and big data analytics to provide real-time macroeconomic insights since 2013.

The company operates one of the world’s largest alternative data lakes, processing over 14 billion pieces of data. Sources include news, social media, satellite data, and sea and air traffic.

QuantCube’s macroeconomic indicators (economic growth, inflation, employment, international trade), correlate strongly with official data and far exceed consensus. Financial institutions that use QuantCube data benefit from real-time insights, ahead of official figures, which they can transform into investment strategies.

Based in Paris, our team is international, diverse and specialized in multilingual NLP, Deep Learning and Machine Learning techniques.
The company’s shareholders include Moody’s and Caisse des Dépôts. And its R&D in computer vision has been partially funded by the European Space Agency (ESA) and CNES.

QuantCube Technology’s products consists in providing real-time economic indicators, related allocation solutions to various economic actors, whether it be private investors like hedge funds, banks or public institutions. Starting from those alternative data it is possible to build investment use cases such as Cross Asset Rotation Strategies, Equity Hedging or Arbitrage Strategies, Currency Hedging strategies, Currency Pairs Spreads or Forex Basket arbitrage strategies.  The Quant Analytics Team is therefore looking for a quantitative analyst with market experience, natural language processing and machine learning skills and having a strong interest in statistics, macroeconomics and financial markets.

Missions:

The assignments you will be working on include:

• Creating bespoke financial solutions (indexes, structured products, funds) with hedge funds, Banks and Asset Managers.

• Contributing to trading strategy and investment cases designs based upon alternative data and statistical learning models including (Robust regressions, Factor Analysis, NLP based models)

• Understanding the main macro drivers, their methodology and how they impact financial markets.

• Participating in Clients Meetings and interacting directly with customers

• Taking part in the production and adaptation of the codes

Benefits:

You will have the opportunity during these assignments to quickly gain responsibility: to lead a project from A to Z from pre-processing to modelling; benefiting from weekly updates on the global economy; to communicate directly with our IT and Data Science teams who are at the forefront of their field; present your work to the whole team at the end of the internship. 
We are a close-knit,friendly and multicultural team. We are looking for motivated people to join the adventure and participate in the development of QuantCube.

• Strong level in python

• Strong level in mathematics and statistics

• Mastery of Time Series Analysis and Machine Learning

• Strong Interest in Economics and Financial Markets

• Client-facing and sales skills: ability to present and pitch clients

• Fluent in English

• Mastering Natural Language Processing Basics would be a plus

• Speaking Arabic would be plus

QuantCube recruits and recognises all talents

1. Meet the Recruiter and Lead Quant Analyst (30 min)

2. Meet the Head of Research and Senior Quant Manager (1h)

3. Meet the co-founders (30 min)