Cargill is a family company committed to providing food and agricultural solutions to nourish the world in a safe, responsible, and sustainable way. We sit at the heart of the supply chain, partnering with producers and customers to source, make and deliver products that are vital for living. By providing customers with life’s essentials, we enable businesses to grow, communities to prosper, and consumers to live well.

This position is in our Ag & Trading enterprise, where we connect producers and users of grains and oilseeds around the globe through origination, trading, processing, and distribution. We also offer a range of farmer services and risk management solutions.

Job Purpose and Impact

Join the systematic trading team with Cargill's World Trading group. The team is trading futures and options on commodities across the globe. It runs a diversified portfolio of non-fundamental and fundamental strategies in a fully systematic setup. The team is now looking to for a quant researcher/trader with experience in metals or energies fundamentals

Key Accountabilities

Lead the discovery, prototyping and design of trading strategies and portfolio construction

• Benchmark, back test and stress-test models to identify true sensitivities and risks.

• Dive in Cargill’s proprietary dataset to extract trading signals or improve strategies

• Maintain and enhance code repository and models infrastructure in a scalable fashion.

• Monitor and improve existing portfolios and daily execution

• Provide expert thought leadership in your field and work with limited direction, using additional research and interpretation to identify issues or problems.

Qualifications

Minimum Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in a related field or equivalent experience

• Minimum of six years of related work experience

• Other minimum qualifications may apply

Preferred Qualifications

• Masters and/or PhD in a quantitative discipline (statistics, computer-science, engineering, quantitative finance, etc.)

• Hands-on experience building infrastructure: Python proficiency + SQL proficiency, knowledge of OOP languages

• Experience in the buy-side running or contributing to a book of low/mid frequency systematic strategies on metals or energies beyond the traditional multi-asset factors

• Experience with intraday strategies

• Experience with fundamental and alternative datasets in global macro markets

Our Offer
We provide a fast paced stimulating international environment, which will stretch your abilities and channel your talents. We also offer competitive salary and benefits combined with outstanding career development opportunities in one of the largest and most solid private companies in the world.

Interested? Then make sure to send us your CV and cover letter in English today: Follow us on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/cargill

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