GBM Public Quantitative Researcher Systematic Option Strategies FICC Globa

Who We AreThe FICC and Equities Quantitative Strategists team works at the center of Goldman Sachs' global markets business. We work hand in hand with Traders to turn quantitative research into solutions directly deployed in our trading franchise, running in live markets. Our impact spans three areas:Across venues: We push the frontier of systematization and automation in our trading franchise. We research and develop market-making strategies and trading signals for better pricing and risk management. We also build low-latency quoting and execution algorithms, and the technology stack behind them, for trading on exchanges and electronic channels.On desks: We build valuation models that price derivatives, evaluate products and explain how markets behave. We create trading tools and algorithms for automated trading and hedging. We use statistical tools to measure and manage risk across asset classes.Across desks: We build and run a large-scale quoting platform and risk management infrastructure. We integrate our core pricing and risk methods, end to end, with the applications Traders use across voice and electronic trading.What We DoOperating at the center of global financial markets, Global Banking & Markets serves institutional clients including asset managers, hedge funds, banks and brokerages, pensions, endowments and foundations, corporations and governments. We help them buy and sell financial products around the world, raise funding, and manage risk. This is a dynamic, entrepreneurial team with a passion for the markets, with individuals who thrive in fast-paced, changing environments and are energized by a bustling trading floor.The Global Currencies and Emerging Markets (GCEM) Strats team works closely with Trading to develop quantitative research, models and technology to solve complex markets and risk-management problems. As a quantitative researcher within the GCEM Strats team, you will focus on Systematic Option Strategies and partner with the trading desk to research, test and implement systematic solutions to Market-Making, signal generation and enhanced risk management across global macro markets.Your ImpactAs a quantitative researcher, you will help shape the research agenda for Systematic Option Strategies. You will take market observations and trading hypotheses through rigorous data analysis, model development, validation, strategy implementation and live deployment. Your research will directly influence how the desk conceptualizes, prices and hedges option risk. You will develop forecasting and prediction models, signals, and systematic hedging strategies, with careful attention to transaction costs, liquidity, tail risk, capacity and robustness across market regimes. The primary focus is systematic FX options and volatility research; relevant experience may come from FX, equities, rates, commodities or another liquid macro asset class. You will work in a collaborative environment involving close interaction between Researchers and Traders while utilizing public and proprietary firm data. This is a highly visible, markets and trading-facing role with a clear path from original research to measurable commercial impact. ResponsibilitiesAs a quantitative researcher within GCEM Strats, you will drive and contribute to applied research for Systematic Option Strategies, translating market intuition and observations into robust, scalable systematic risk management and market making strategies.This includes, but is not limited to, a mandate to: * Originate and test systematic option market making approaches, incorporating a diverse array of techniques and signals. * Develop forecasting models for volatility markets, capturing skew, smile, term structure, carry effects, cross-asset relationships and market regimes. * Design and implement systematic hedging strategies for vega and related risks subject to real market constraints, balancing expected P&L, transaction costs, liquidity, basi