Presto
Quantitative Researcher
- Location
- South Korea, KR
- Arrangement
- On-site
- Employment type
- Full-time
- Posted
- 18 August 2026 (about a month ago)
Checked about a month agoApplications go to the employer, never to RoleSprint
About this role
About Presto Founded in 2014, Presto is an algorithmic trading and financial services firm with a global presence. Presto focuses on delivering exceptional value for clients through a rigorous research-driven approach to investment and trade execution.
About Presto Founded in 2014, Presto is an algorithmic trading and financial services firm with a global presence. Presto focuses on delivering exceptional value for clients through a rigorous research-driven approach to investment and trade execution.
As a Quantitative Researcher Trader at Presto Our team is looking for an outstanding algorithmic trader who will make automatically tradable signals on creative ideas. To research trading signals, our traders use innovative technologies such as machine learning, deep learning and etc., to analyze various data, including low-level market microstructure data, news feed, fundamental data, analyst prediction and etc. As a Quant Researcher in Presto Labs, you will analyze such data and turn your hypotheses and insights into real-world signals. You will work together with the world’s top-class quantitative engineers, developers, and traders of Presto Labs.
Responsibilities • Extract useful information from raw data
• Build money making signals from the extracted information
• Adopt innovative technologies to data analysis and to the research process
• Work together with traders to monetize the signals.
• Manage and upgrade signals based on market environmental changes
Qualification • Bachelor’s degree or higher from a leading university in a quantitative field including, but not limited to, Mathematics, Science, Engineering, Financial Engineering and etc.
• Proficiency in C++ and Python or in other programming languages
• Excellent analytic skills with relentlessness in finding gems out of the vast amounts of data
• Prior experience in finance is not required but one must possess an eagerness to learn about finance and global financial market
• Scientist-like mindset
• Strong proficiency in English
• Open to working abroad
*The Resume must be written in English
Preferred • Interest and personal participation in financial markets
• Excellent academic achievement
• Thoughtful, warm hearted, and collaborative
• Korean language skill in conversational level
Hiring process • Resume review
• Online coding and mathematics test
• 1st round interview
• 2nd round interview
* Depending on the circumstances, the interview process may change.
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Work location
- KR
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Published 18 August 2026, last checked about a month ago. A posting stops being advertised here 90 days after the employer published it, and one the employer takes down is marked closed rather than quietly removed.