Quantitative Financial Researcher

Key Skills

Aartificial intelligence, Analytical and Problem solving, Data science techniques, Finance, Geospatial Statistical, High performance computing- HPC, Presentation skills, Python Programming, Statistics, Writing

Job Description

Gro Intelligence is tackling two of the biggest problems facing the world today: food security and climate change. We understand and quantify the complex interplay between food, weather, trade, agriculture, and macroeconomic conditions in a world upended by climate change, a growing population, and more. The team at Gro has built a platform that allows businesses, non-profits, and governments to better plan for and adapt to these changes. With offices in Nairobi, New York, and Singapore Gro has the financial backing of prominent investors such as TPG Growth, Intel Capital, Data Collective, and GGV. Gro is a diverse, intellectually curious team of technologists, scientists, and business professionals united by a shared commitment to build AI that addresses agriculture, food, and our climate on the most fundamental level.

In the Quantitative Financial Researcher role you will be a key part of our Climate-Finance team where you will work on projects that explore the relationship between climate and the financial markets.

What You'll Do

• Primary responsibility will be to support the development of several risk products and indices tied to climate change, for both physical and transition risk.
• Conduct quantitative research to create or improve risk factor and index designs focused on desirable statistical properties, continuity, scale consistency, and representative response to underlying ground truth.
• Working closely with product and engineering teams in the design and implementation of robust financial indices based on geospatial environmental data.
• Act as an “internal customer” for Gro Indices by implementing research projects of personal interest as an ongoing test of index robustness and applicability.
• Collaborating with the business development team on bespoke client projects.

What We're Looking For

• Masters or Ph.D in a technical field including but not limited to Statistics, Mathematics, Physics, Econometrics, and Computer Science.
• Advanced degrees in Quantitative Finance or Financial Engineering also of interest.
• 3+ years of relevant quantitative research experience in finance.
• This could include a financial index company, product group at a bank, an econometric/index team at the BLS or FED.
• Quantitative risk management and portfolio construction on the buy side would also apply.
• Strong math and statistics background.
• Familiarity with modern programming languages and tools including Python and cloud computing.
• Exceptional written, oral, and presentation abilities.
• Strong organizational, problem solving, and analytical skills.
• Ability to perform and synthesize quantitative and qualitative analyses.
• Comfort with working with large volumes of data.
• Ability to work autonomously under tight deadlines.
• Ability to work collaboratively with team members across functional roles.

Nice to Have

• Experience/interest with geospatial data, climate data, or climate science.
• Experience/interest in high performance computing.

Compensation

The salary range for this role is expected to be $150,000 - $210,000. Other compensation for the role includes equity, 20 days of PTO, 2 floating holidays, as well as health, vision & dental insurance.

Gro is hybrid: employees work three days in-office and choose the days which work best for them.

Gro was founded in 2014 and currently has offices in Nairobi, New York, and Singapore. The company was built on diversity and the knowledge that artificial intelligence is only as good as the human intelligence behind it. Gro’s team represents the world it is modeling. At the company, we speak more than 27 languages and we comprise a wide range of experts, from agronomists and crop scientists, to mathematicians, engineers, data scientists, market research analysts, designers, historians, and philosophers. Our culture fosters collaboration between people of extremely different backgrounds that allows us to accomplish things that would otherwise seem impossible.

Gro Intelligence is proud to be an equal opportunity employer and will consider all qualified applicants regardless of color, ancestry, religion, sex, national origin, sexual orientation, age, citizenship, marital or family status, disability, gender identity or expression, veteran status, actual or presumed belonging to an ethnic group, or any other legally protected status. If you have a disability or special need that requires accommodation, please let us know.