About Lynott Partners
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Founded in November 2023 by Sebastian Jory, Lynott Partners is a nascent absolute return manager backed by long-term private capital with $750m of AUM. The current team of four focuses on UK and European equities. The business has the ambition and infrastructure to grow strategies beyond the core successful European long/short offering to long-only, global and quant mandates.
Role & Responsibilities
The role will encompass managing and delivering on Lynott’s quant and automation goals, and providing a strong data science backbone for the team.
More specifically, work will include:
* Aiding PMs and analysts in automating data science workflows
* Developing quantitative equity strategies with a combination of own initiative, and consulting with the team
* Working with LLM APIs to professionalise internal AI tooling and potentially build related strategies
* More general data science tasks and analysing signals from human decision-making in the team
A core contribution of the employee will be to build a future-facing tech stack, and manage the automation and data science builds.
Requirements
Experience in a sell-side or buy-side quant position, highly proficient in chosen programming languages (likely Python), statistical or mathematical background, experience with machine learning algorithms and data science toolkits, and some experience working with LLM APIs.
Key Skills
* Highly proficient programmer
* Project manager and communicator
* Systems thinker with cloud service experience (e.g. GCP)
* Experience with market-related APIs (e.g. Factset, VisibleAlpha) and add-ins (Bloomberg)
* Experience with spreadsheet workflows, particularly GoogleSheets
* Finance experience with an understanding of markets, companies
Expectations
* Highly driven & motivated to produce best-in-class quant output and automation
* Strong work ethic and commitment to integrity, honesty and personal growth