Desired Skill Set

• Operations and accounting
• Trading
• Quantitative research and software development
• System Administration

For operations and accounting, we're looking for candidates with:

• Great communication skills and a team mentality
• Solid quantitative skills and a facility with numbers
• Strong computer skills
• Careful attention to detail and organizational skills
• An eagerness to learn every day and get it right

Of further value would be:

• Expertise in Excel
• Experience using Access or other databases
• Working knowledge of securities and commodities trading
• Experience in operations, accounting, or risk at a hedge fund or broker-dealer

Trading candidates should be:

• Excellent quantitatively, with a strong understanding of probability and statistics
• Effective communicators in a close-knit team setting
• Motivated, competitive and eager to learn and teach
• Able to solve new problems quickly in the hectic environment of a busy desk or exchange floor
• Excited to engage in impromptu and exploratory debate on trading strategy and risk

Previous experience or course work in finance, business, or economics is NOT required. We're more interested in how you think and learn than what you know.

For quantitative research and software development, we're broadly looking for:

• A commitment to the practical. Our work is tightly connected to our day-to-day trading operation, and we like it that way. We want people who are excited about the prospect of making a palpable impact, and who are drawn to simple and elegant solutions to complex problems.

• Strong mathematical and analytic skills. A key part of the job is the ability to think clearly and mathematically about all sorts of problems. There's no specific checklist of skills, and we draw on ideas from everywhere we can, so we value interest and experience in a range of scientific and technical fields.

• Good programming skills. Pretty much all of our programming is in OCaml, so knowing something about functional programming is a big plus. Most importantly, you should enjoy programming. Whether working on research or software, a large part of your work will involve writing code.

You're a good fit for system administration if you:

• Understand how modern computers really work and like to understand the details. Maybe you build your computers from scratch, or follow OS programming or filesystem developments.

• Know your way around whatever OS you’re most expert at, and are unafraid of digging into new ones. Formatting filesystems, installing bootloaders, compiling programs, and slicing through logs doesn’t daunt you.

• Are delighted by problems without known answers. A lot of the systems problems we encounter don't have neat, well-understood solutions.

• Enjoy programming automated solutions to problems. We use a lot of OCaml, but we also dabble in Ruby, VB, Python, and shell as occasion and need dictate. We emphasize clarity and practicality in our code.

• Embrace solutions that are both elegant and fun. We think solutions are better when they are concise, engaging, and clean, not just cobbled together to get the job out of the way.