Jersey City, NJ30+ days ago
Skills Required: This position requires two (2) years of experience with the following: Developing models for pricing fixed income products including loans, bonds, credit fault swaps, credit default obligations, and synthetic risk transfers; Construction of risky pricing curves for a debt issuer using risk neutral mathematical models for fixed income products; Risk neutral pricing; and experience with change of numeraire to replicate exotic product pricing in terms of other vanilla fixed income products; Using quantitative research methods, including numerical techniques such as Markov chain, Monte Carlo Simulations, or other optimization techniques for solving non-linear equations, for credit ratings, collateral, and the debt structure of an issuer of debt; Blending machine learning techniques such as clustering, tree models and random forests with econometric modeling to build time series and panel data models for model development and calibration; Writing technical model documentation. QUALIFICATIONS: Minimum education and experience required: Master's degree in Quantitative and Computational Finance, Engineering, Statistics, Physics, Chemistry and Mathematics, or related field of study plus 2 years (24 months) of experience in the job offered or as Quantitative Modeling Researcher, Credit Risk Quantitative Research, Market Liquidity Risk Management (MLRM), or related occupation.