Quantitative Researcher, Challenge Design Specialist – QRT Academy

Qube Research & Technologies (QRT) is a global quantitative and systematic investment manager, operating in all liquid asset classes across the world. We are a technology and data driven group implementing a scientific approach to investing. Combining data, research, technology and trading expertise has shaped QRT’s collaborative mindset which enables us to solve the most complex challenges. QRT’s culture of innovation continuously drives our ambition to deliver high quality returns for our investors. 

• Design, run, and scale mathematical problem-solving challenges, competitions, and interactive academic events across leading universities.
• Work closely with researchers, traders, and the talent team to design original mathematical problems, logic puzzles, and quantitative challenges that reveal how candidates think and reason under uncertainty, as well as trading games and hackathons.
• Experiment with and deliver new formats for academic engagement, including online, hybrid, and in-person initiatives, with a focus on creative and diagnostic challenge design.
• Build and maintain relationships with students, societies, and academic departments.
• Act as an ambassador to the academic community, contributing to and shaping the firm’s long-term outreach and challenge-design strategy.

• Strong education in mathematics or a closely related quantitative field (e.g. statistics, machine learning, finance, computational finance).
• Deep interest in mathematical problem-solving, puzzles, and logical reasoning, with curiosity about how intuition, judgement, and abstraction can be assessed through well-designed challenges.
• Experience with Olympiads, mathematics competitions, programming challenges, or trading games is highly valued.
• Creative mindset with the ability to design elegant, insightful mathematical challenges, not just technically difficult ones.
• Strong written and verbal communication skills, with the ability to explain complex ideas clearly.
• Organised, proactive, and comfortable owning projects end-to-end.
• Experience with student societies, teaching, or outreach programmes is helpful.

QRT is an equal opportunity employer. We welcome diversity as essential to our success. QRT empowers employees to work openly and respectfully to achieve collective success. In addition to professional achievement, we are offering initiatives and programs to enable employees to achieve a healthy work-life balance.