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It may be 'try before you buy' with a company, but for today's highly sought-after job seeker who knows fully well how valuable their skills are, our jobs are 'try before you commit.'\r\nClient Company Info\r\nEstablished FinTech; less than 200 employees, less than 10 years old\r\nJob Location\r\nRemote\r\nTime Commitment\r\nLess than 20 hours per week, but gradually growing\r\nType of Position\r\nProject-to-hire\r\nPay\r\nHourly pay while working for Ambitionary; upon full-time hiring, this company will have a combination of Salary, Bonus, Benefits, Equity\r\nRole Details\r\nThis position performs quantitative research, analysis, model development, and model validation for a number of our products and scenarios comparative to different markets and geographies. As an early-stage company, we don't have the luxury of specialized Quants, so this role has a bit of everything. The expectation is to learn what it is that you don't know, then learn it, and apply it to your model scenarios. You will do your own research, while working alongside our financial industry expertise, and apply the knowledge you attain to the models.\r\nSample example: what happens to the prices of Solana, Cardano, or Hedera when Bitcoin spikes on Saturdays at 0400 Eastern time?\r\nRequired Qualifications\r\nMinimum of a Master's degree or PhD in a quantitative discipline (CompSci, Math, Statistics, Physics etc)\r\n1 Year of working experience is all that we require, but will consider resumes of all backgrounds\r\nMust be proficient in Python and familiar with distributed computing frameworks (e.g. Spark)\r\nMATLAB, R, C++, SQL or some combination thereof to overcome Python's limitations\r\nBe able to explain Python's limitations and why we should develop a model in another technology\r\nJavascript would be cool to have just because\r\nThis position is available only to candidates currently eligible to work in the United States. 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