Our hedge fund specializes in fully automated trading. We have developed a best-in-class automated trading platform, featuring direct market access to  major financial exchanges, and a complete system for developing and automating trading strategies. We will provide the technology, the capital, detailed historical data, lowest cost commissions, and highest quality executions—you will leverage these tools to build profitable trading strategies. We’ve built the body, you build the brains.

This position will be directly responsible for generating profits for the company. A core part of our culture is to share profits with people who are responsible for them. Therefore, this position is potentially very lucrative. We will provide you with the resources needed; it will be up to you to develop and drive these strategies to maximum profitability.

• Build and maintain quantitative trading models by researching and establishing investment strategies
• Oversee daily performance and evaluate against historical data
• Assess portfolio to ensure compliance with regulatory requirements, firm policies and portfolio investment strategies
• Collaborate with Trade Ops to ensure stable deployment of quantitative strategies

• 3+ years managing and developing strategies and managing portfolio risk
• M.S. or Ph.D. degree from a top-tier school in a technical, scientific, and/or quantitative field
• 2+ years of experience with a major object oriented programming language (C++ / Java / C# preferred)
• 2+ years of experience working with Unix-based systems
• Strong desire to conquer the challenge of outperforming other financial market participants
• Self-motivated, hardworking, creative and competitive personality
• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills

Additional Desired Skills

• Statistical modeling, time series, machine learning, big data, or other data modeling experience
• Matlab, R, Stata, numPy, Pandas: expertise with any of these is a plus

We treat ourselves well:

• Competitive base salary
• Opportunity to earn a large bonus, based on performance
• Three to four weeks of paid time off
• Complete health coverage including dental
• Retirement plan
• Tuition and educational reimbursement
• Direct access to senior personnel
• Frequent company outings
• Free snacks, drinks, and fresh fruit

Job Description 

Work directly with the Director of Quantitative Researcher and assist the strategy team by applying your analytical skills and writing programs to assess and support trading strategies.

Responsibilities

• Conduct quantitative research on market microstructure and conditions
• Analyze strategy performance and execution quality
• Automate analyses and reports
• Create, maintain, and enhance research tools and libraries
• Provide ad hoc support to strategists

We treat ourselves well:

• Competitive base salary
• Opportunity to earn a large bonus, based on performance
• Three to four weeks of paid time off
• Complete health coverage including dental
• Tuition and educational reimbursement
• Direct access to senior personnel
• Frequent company outings
• Free snacks, drinks, and fresh fruit

Job Description 

We are looking for well-rounded and driven individuals with a strong background in Computer Science. This role will participate in the whole development cycle of a high frequency trading operation. We are looking for a team player who is

• enthusiastic in software programming ( preferable but not limited to C++/Python )
• having great attention to details with the ability to learn and solve problems efficiently
• productive and capable of delivering high quality of code and research under time pressure and resource limitations

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, maintain, and evolve our electronic trading systems
• Implement exchange connectivities to support market data and order management on new trading venues
• Work with quants and traders on researching and implementing new trading strategies
• Support trading operation in trading hours

We treat ourselves well:

• Competitive base salary
• Opportunity to earn a large bonus, based on performance
• Three to four weeks of paid time off
• Complete health coverage including dental
• Tuition and educational reimbursement
• Direct access to senior personnel
• Frequent company outings
• Free snacks, drinks, and fresh fruit

Job Description 

We are looking for well-rounded and driven individuals with a strong background in Computer Science. This role will work closely with all the quants and traders to build a cutting-edge research platform to grow our business. We are looking for a team player who is

• enthusiastic in statistics and software programming (highly preferable in C++/Python)
• having great attention to details with the ability to learn and solve problems efficiently
• productive and capable of delivering high quality of code and research under time pressure and resource limitations

Please notice that this role has little to do with quantitative research (check our quantitative analyst JD). It’s a developer role that supports and improves our quantitative research.

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, maintain, and evolve our quantitative research platform
• Work with quants and traders on researching and implementing cutting-edge model building pipeline
• Process petabytes of data and turn them into modern statistical models

We treat ourselves well:

• Competitive base salary
• Opportunity to earn a large bonus, based on performance
• Three to four weeks of paid time off
• Complete health coverage including dental
• Tuition and educational reimbursement
• Direct access to senior personnel
• Frequent company outings
• Free snacks, drinks, and fresh fruit

Job Description 

The Systems Engineer will report to the Chief Technology Officer of Asia and be responsible for user/desktop support, being the initial contact for general Systems issues, and be expected to grow over time to be able to deal with most Systems & Networking issues.

Responsibilities

• Primary contact for user/desktop support. Duties include account setup, desktop provisioning, installation of software packages & modules (Python, Ruby, R, etc), phone & printing issues, general troubleshooting, etc.
• Manage our servers across multiple data centers, including BIOS tunings & ILO configurations, OS installation & upgrade, host configurations via our configuration management system, additional setup/configurations not yet scripted, etc.
• Report problems to telco and service providers, provide regular updates to the team, and coordinate/work with team members to resolve issues.
• Work with data center providers and brokers on provisioning servers and connectivity.  Work with brokers and exchanges on exchange access.
• Develop scripts to automate systems tasks (most should go into our configuration management system).
• Deploy monitoring scripts and write custom checks as needed.
• Perform database administration duties, including setup and configurations, access control, data import and export, monitoring, replication and backups, etc.
• Perform storage-related tasks, including adding more capacity, freeing up disk space, monitoring, reporting, etc.

• Fluent in Mandarin Chinese
• Experience in customer support
• Debian / Ubuntu Linux
• Some hands-on experience with networking (Cisco) & MySQL

We treat ourselves well:

• Competitive base salary
• Opportunity to earn a large bonus, based on performance
• Three to four weeks of paid time off
• Complete health coverage including dental
• Tuition and educational reimbursement
• Direct access to senior personnel
• Frequent company outings
• Free snacks, drinks, and fresh fruit

Athena is always looking for qualified college students (bachelor’s, master’s and PhDs) for any of the roles we have available.  Aspiring software engineers, quantitative researchers and developers, systems engineers and any other motivated students are all invited to apply.

Please refer to those requisitions for guidance on what we are looking for and feel free to apply with INTERN in your email subject.  We believe in fostering an environment full of creativity, passion, and real-world applications to better prepare our interns for the challenges of life after academia.

Job description

The Executive Assistant role will report directly to the Chief Operating Officer of Asia and be primarily responsible for providing administrative support and human resources functions in the Hong Kong office.  This role will also assist business development tasks from time to time.

Key Responsibilities

• Support the COO and CEO’s work in managing and growing the Asia business
• Conserve the executive’s time by managing their schedules; draft letters and documents; collect and analyze information
• Coordinate and schedule meetings, and assist in preparation of minutes and documents
• Manage travel and event arrangements
• Manage recruiting processes; schedule interviews and tests for candidates
• Manage the firm’s benefits plans, such as health insurance and pension plans
• Liaise with service providers for HR and other business functions
• Support office activities to aid in facilitating an efficient operation of the organization
• Maintain office guidelines by preparing, updating, and recommending human resource policies and procedures
• Advise and assist management in appropriate resolution of employee relations issues
• Conduct English-Mandarin Chinese translation
• Be involved and participate in ad hoc projects as assigned

Requirements

• 2+ years of office work experience in an executive supporting role
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite, including Word, Excel
• Fluent in English and Mandarin Chinese, and ability to type Chinese
• Flexibility and the ability to multitask
• Detail oriented, well organized, and able to meet tight deadlines
• Cheerful attitude and excellent interpersonal and communication skills
• Sensitivity to confidential matters is required
• Independent and self-motivated