Quantitative Execution Researcher
for sections like About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. Use - for any list of duties/requirements/benefits, and
for prose. Do NOT repeat job title as heading. Do NOT put Job ID/requisition numbers as headings. Remove boilerplate, navigation, legal, EEO, equal-opportunity, scam-warning, duplicated lines, application instructions. Include a section ONLY when posting has real, specific content for it — never emit heading followed by filler/placeholder text. Prefer few substantive sections over many thin ones.
We need to parse the posting.
Content:
Intro: "Why Stifel Stifel strives for a culture that puts its clients and associates first: a culture where everyone belongs, everyone is welcome, and everyone contributes to the success of our clients, their careers, and the firm as a whole. Let’s talk about how you can find your place here at Stifel, where success meets success."
Then "What You'll Be Doing" section: description of role responsibilities.
Then "What We're Looking For": bullet-like list of responsibilities? Actually it's more like responsibilities and tasks.
Then "What You'll Bring": qualifications/skills.
Then "Education & Experience": minimum required.
Then "Licenses & Credentials": none.
Then "Systems & Technology Knowledge": time-series data platforms.
Then "Compensation Range": Salary range.
Then "Other benefits and offerings include...": benefits.
Then "About Stifel": company description.
Then repeated "Let’s talk about how you can find your place here at Stifel, where success meets success." (duplicate). Also "At Stifel we offer an entrepreneurial environment, comprehensive benefits package..." duplicate.
Then "Stifel is an Equal Opportunity Employer." (EEO boilerplate to remove).
We need to extract substantive content and format.
We need sections: maybe "About the role" (intro?), "Responsibilities", "Requirements", "Qualifications", "Skills", "Benefits", "Pay". Schedule not present, so omit.
We must not create sections with filler.
We need to decide which headings to use.
We have content for:
- About the role: maybe the introductory paragraph about Stifel culture and role? Could be "About the role" or "About Stifel". The instruction says use headings like About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. So we can have "About the role" for description of role and company? Or we could have separate "About Stifel" but not in list; but we can still use "About the role" for role description. The "About Stifel" section is more company overview; could be part of "About the role" or we could omit if not needed. But we need to preserve ALL substantive information; we cannot omit company description. So we need to include it somewhere. Could put under "About the role" heading, combining role description and company overview. Or we could create a custom heading? The instruction says use those headings for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule). It doesn't forbid other headings, but says use
for section headings (e.g. About the role, ...). Likely they expect us to use those headings only. So we should map content to those headings.
Thus:
- About the role: include introductory paragraph about Stifel culture and role description? Could also include "What You'll Be Doing" as responsibilities.
But we also need Responsibilities heading separate.
Thus:
About the role: maybe a brief overview of the role and company? Could combine the "Why Stifel" paragraph and maybe a summary.
Responsibilities: content from "What You'll Be Doing" and "What We're Looking For" (these are responsibilities/duties). We'll list as - .
Requirements: maybe Education & Experience, Licenses & Credentials, Systems & Technology Knowledge.
Qualifications: maybe "What You'll Bring" (skills/qualities).
Skills: maybe programming languages etc.
But we need to avoid duplication and thin sections.
We could combine Requirements and Qualifications into one? But instruction says prefer few substantive sections over many thin ones. So we could have:
- About the role (intro + company overview)
- Responsibilities (duties)
- Requirements (education, experience, licenses, systems)
- Skills (technical skills, qualifications)
- Benefits (benefits description)
- Pay (salary range)
Schedule not present.
We must not create sections with filler like "commensurate with experience". We have actual salary range.
We need to ensure we don't include boilerplate like "Actual salaries may vary, and may be based on several factors..." That's still substantive? It's about compensation; we can keep it as part of Pay section.
We need to remove duplicated lines, application instructions, EEO, etc.
Let's extract content.
Original text:
"Why Stifel Stifel strives for a culture that puts its clients and associates first: a culture where everyone belongs, everyone is welcome, and everyone contributes to the success of our clients, their careers, and the firm as a whole. Let’s talk about how you can find your place here at Stifel, where success meets success."
That's intro.
"What You'll Be Doing The Quantitative Execution Researcher works closely with the Electronic Trading team under the direction of the Senior Quantitative Researcher in the development, assessment and management of equity execution models, transaction cost models, and order routing strategies. The responsibilities of this position include initiating research into execution signals and model factors. The Quantitative Research team works closely with the development team to determine which research projects are suitable for further analysis or deployment into Stifel execution algorithms."
That's responsibilities.
"What We're Looking For Develop strong knowledge of Stifel’s Electronic Trading business and development process. Apply computational, mathematical, and statistical techniques in support of equity execution algorithm development, transaction cost modeling, and performance analysis. Originate quantitative models and analytical tools to address issues such as short-term volume/price forecasting, sentiment analysis, signaling, execution optimization, performance measurement, and risk attribution. Maintain existing quantitative processes and develop new core analytical capabilities or model libraries, using advanced statistical, machine learning and quantitative techniques. Devise or apply independent models or tools to help verify results of analytical systems. Interpret results of analytical procedures and recommend new processes and or action plans. Work closely with trading, technology, and model validation teams to document and improve product offering. Present research findings/insights to team members."
That's more responsibilities/duties.
"What You'll Bring Strong team player with demonstrated interest in equity trading. Ability to use quantitative and data science techniques to research and develop appropriate models and tools for use by trading algorithms. Ability to understand which quantitative research is commercially viable and computationally efficient. Strong knowledge of programming skillset, Python, SQL, and kdb+/q. Familiarity with US equities market structure. Creativity/ability to adapt to and define process. Detail oriented, self-motivated, independent and a strong communicator."
That's qualifications/skills.
"Education & Experience Minimum Required: Graduate Degree in computational finance / financial engineeringMinimum Required: 1+ year related experience in US equity quantitative research/trading at a financial services firm."
Note there is a typo: "Minimum Required:" appears twice. We'll combine.
"Licenses & Credentials Minimum Required: None"
"Systems & Technology Knowledge of time-series data platforms (q/KDB+, etc.)"
"Compensation Range Salary: USD $150,000.00/Yr. - USD $250,000.00/Yr. Actual salaries may vary, and may be based on several factors, including but not limited to each candidate’s qualifications, skills, and overall competencies for the position. The base salary is one component of Stifel’s overall compensation package for each individual employee."
"Other benefits and offerings include, but not limited to, discretionary bonuses, health / dental / vision / prescription insurance offerings, Stifel Total Health Connect, flexible spending accounts, tuition & certification assistance programs, paid time off, and much, much more! To view a more comprehensive list of Stifel’s current offerings, please visit https://www.stifel.com/careers/benefits."
"About Stifel Stifel is more than 130 years old and still thinking like a start-up. We are a global wealth management and investment banking firm serious about innovation and fresh ideas. Built on a simple premise of safeguarding our clients’ money as if it were our own, coined by our namesake, Herman Stifel, our success is intimately tied to our commitment to helping families, companies, and municipalities find their own success. While our headquarters is in St. Louis, we have offices in New York, San Francisco, Baltimore, London, Frankfurt, Toronto, and more than 400 other locations. Stifel is home to approximately 9,000 individuals who are currently building their careers as financial advisors, research analysts, project managers, marketing specialists, developers, bankers, operations associates, among hundreds more. Let’s talk about how you can find your place here at Stifel, where success meets success. At Stifel we offer an entrepreneurial environment, comprehensive benefits package to include health, dental and vision care, 401k, wellness initiatives, life insurance, and paid time off. Stifel is an Equal Opportunity Employer."
We need to remove duplicated lines: The "Let’s talk about how you can find your place here at Stifel, where success meets success." appears twice (intro and about Stifel). Also the benefits paragraph appears duplicated partially.
We need to keep only one instance.
We also need to remove EEO line: "Stifel is an Equal Opportunity Employer."
Also remove application instructions: "Applications are accepted until the position is filled." and "To view a more comprehensive list..." maybe keep as part of benefits? The instruction says remove application instructions. The line "To view a more comprehensive list of Stifel’s current offerings, please visit https://www.stifel.com/careers/benefits." is more like a reference; could be considered application instruction? It's not exactly applying, but it's a link for benefits. Might be okay to keep as part of benefits? Safer to remove that sentence as it's a directive. However the instruction says remove application instructions, not necessarily benefit info links. But it's a link to benefits; could be considered part of benefits section. I'd keep the benefits description but maybe drop the link sentence.
Also "Applications are accepted until the position is filled." is definitely application instruction; remove.
Now we need to format.
We'll produce:
About the role
... intro + company overview ...
But we need to avoid repeating the intro sentence twice. We'll combine the "Why Stifel" paragraph and the "About Stifel" paragraph (minus duplicated line). Let's craft:
"Why Stifel strives for a culture that puts its clients and associates first: a culture where everyone belongs, everyone is welcome, and everyone contributes to the success of our clients, their careers, and the firm as a whole. Stifel is more than 130 years old and still thinking like a start-up. We are a global wealth management and investment banking firm serious about innovation and fresh ideas. Built on a simple premise of safeguarding our clients’ money as if it were our own, coined by our namesake, Herman Stifel, our success is intimately tied to our commitment to helping families, companies, and municipalities find their own success. While our headquarters is in St. Louis, we have offices in New York, San Francisco, Baltimore, London, Frankfurt, Toronto, and more than 400 other locations. Stifel is home to approximately 9,000 individuals who are currently building their careers as financial advisors, research analysts, project managers, marketing specialists, developers, bankers, operations associates, among hundreds more."
That seems good.
Now Responsibilities: combine "What You'll Be Doing" and "What We're Looking For". We'll list as - each bullet.
We need to break into sensible items.
From "What You'll Be Doing":
- Works closely with the Electronic Trading
for prose. Do NOT repeat job title as heading. Do NOT put Job ID/requisition numbers as headings. Remove boilerplate, navigation, legal, EEO, equal-opportunity, scam-warning, duplicated lines, application instructions. Include a section ONLY when posting has real, specific content for it — never emit heading followed by filler/placeholder text. Prefer few substantive sections over many thin ones. We need to parse the posting. Content: Intro: "Why Stifel Stifel strives for a culture that puts its clients and associates first: a culture where everyone belongs, everyone is welcome, and everyone contributes to the success of our clients, their careers, and the firm as a whole. Let’s talk about how you can find your place here at Stifel, where success meets success." Then "What You'll Be Doing" section: description of role responsibilities. Then "What We're Looking For": bullet-like list of responsibilities? Actually it's more like responsibilities and tasks. Then "What You'll Bring": qualifications/skills. Then "Education & Experience": minimum required. Then "Licenses & Credentials": none. Then "Systems & Technology Knowledge": time-series data platforms. Then "Compensation Range": Salary range. Then "Other benefits and offerings include...": benefits. Then "About Stifel": company description. Then repeated "Let’s talk about how you can find your place here at Stifel, where success meets success." (duplicate). Also "At Stifel we offer an entrepreneurial environment, comprehensive benefits package..." duplicate. Then "Stifel is an Equal Opportunity Employer." (EEO boilerplate to remove). We need to extract substantive content and format. We need sections: maybe "About the role" (intro?), "Responsibilities", "Requirements", "Qualifications", "Skills", "Benefits", "Pay". Schedule not present, so omit. We must not create sections with filler. We need to decide which headings to use. We have content for: - About the role: maybe the introductory paragraph about Stifel culture and role? Could be "About the role" or "About Stifel". The instruction says use headings like About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. So we can have "About the role" for description of role and company? Or we could have separate "About Stifel" but not in list; but we can still use "About the role" for role description. The "About Stifel" section is more company overview; could be part of "About the role" or we could omit if not needed. But we need to preserve ALL substantive information; we cannot omit company description. So we need to include it somewhere. Could put under "About the role" heading, combining role description and company overview. Or we could create a custom heading? The instruction says use those headings for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule). It doesn't forbid other headings, but says use
for section headings (e.g. About the role, ...). Likely they expect us to use those headings only. So we should map content to those headings.
Thus:
- About the role: include introductory paragraph about Stifel culture and role description? Could also include "What You'll Be Doing" as responsibilities.
But we also need Responsibilities heading separate.
Thus:
About the role: maybe a brief overview of the role and company? Could combine the "Why Stifel" paragraph and maybe a summary.
Responsibilities: content from "What You'll Be Doing" and "What We're Looking For" (these are responsibilities/duties). We'll list as - .
Requirements: maybe Education & Experience, Licenses & Credentials, Systems & Technology Knowledge.
Qualifications: maybe "What You'll Bring" (skills/qualities).
Skills: maybe programming languages etc.
But we need to avoid duplication and thin sections.
We could combine Requirements and Qualifications into one? But instruction says prefer few substantive sections over many thin ones. So we could have:
- About the role (intro + company overview)
- Responsibilities (duties)
- Requirements (education, experience, licenses, systems)
- Skills (technical skills, qualifications)
- Benefits (benefits description)
- Pay (salary range)
Schedule not present.
We must not create sections with filler like "commensurate with experience". We have actual salary range.
We need to ensure we don't include boilerplate like "Actual salaries may vary, and may be based on several factors..." That's still substantive? It's about compensation; we can keep it as part of Pay section.
We need to remove duplicated lines, application instructions, EEO, etc.
Let's extract content.
Original text:
"Why Stifel Stifel strives for a culture that puts its clients and associates first: a culture where everyone belongs, everyone is welcome, and everyone contributes to the success of our clients, their careers, and the firm as a whole. Let’s talk about how you can find your place here at Stifel, where success meets success."
That's intro.
"What You'll Be Doing The Quantitative Execution Researcher works closely with the Electronic Trading team under the direction of the Senior Quantitative Researcher in the development, assessment and management of equity execution models, transaction cost models, and order routing strategies. The responsibilities of this position include initiating research into execution signals and model factors. The Quantitative Research team works closely with the development team to determine which research projects are suitable for further analysis or deployment into Stifel execution algorithms."
That's responsibilities.
"What We're Looking For Develop strong knowledge of Stifel’s Electronic Trading business and development process. Apply computational, mathematical, and statistical techniques in support of equity execution algorithm development, transaction cost modeling, and performance analysis. Originate quantitative models and analytical tools to address issues such as short-term volume/price forecasting, sentiment analysis, signaling, execution optimization, performance measurement, and risk attribution. Maintain existing quantitative processes and develop new core analytical capabilities or model libraries, using advanced statistical, machine learning and quantitative techniques. Devise or apply independent models or tools to help verify results of analytical systems. Interpret results of analytical procedures and recommend new processes and or action plans. Work closely with trading, technology, and model validation teams to document and improve product offering. Present research findings/insights to team members."
That's more responsibilities/duties.
"What You'll Bring Strong team player with demonstrated interest in equity trading. Ability to use quantitative and data science techniques to research and develop appropriate models and tools for use by trading algorithms. Ability to understand which quantitative research is commercially viable and computationally efficient. Strong knowledge of programming skillset, Python, SQL, and kdb+/q. Familiarity with US equities market structure. Creativity/ability to adapt to and define process. Detail oriented, self-motivated, independent and a strong communicator."
That's qualifications/skills.
"Education & Experience Minimum Required: Graduate Degree in computational finance / financial engineeringMinimum Required: 1+ year related experience in US equity quantitative research/trading at a financial services firm."
Note there is a typo: "Minimum Required:" appears twice. We'll combine.
"Licenses & Credentials Minimum Required: None"
"Systems & Technology Knowledge of time-series data platforms (q/KDB+, etc.)"
"Compensation Range Salary: USD $150,000.00/Yr. - USD $250,000.00/Yr. Actual salaries may vary, and may be based on several factors, including but not limited to each candidate’s qualifications, skills, and overall competencies for the position. The base salary is one component of Stifel’s overall compensation package for each individual employee."
"Other benefits and offerings include, but not limited to, discretionary bonuses, health / dental / vision / prescription insurance offerings, Stifel Total Health Connect, flexible spending accounts, tuition & certification assistance programs, paid time off, and much, much more! To view a more comprehensive list of Stifel’s current offerings, please visit https://www.stifel.com/careers/benefits."
"About Stifel Stifel is more than 130 years old and still thinking like a start-up. We are a global wealth management and investment banking firm serious about innovation and fresh ideas. Built on a simple premise of safeguarding our clients’ money as if it were our own, coined by our namesake, Herman Stifel, our success is intimately tied to our commitment to helping families, companies, and municipalities find their own success. While our headquarters is in St. Louis, we have offices in New York, San Francisco, Baltimore, London, Frankfurt, Toronto, and more than 400 other locations. Stifel is home to approximately 9,000 individuals who are currently building their careers as financial advisors, research analysts, project managers, marketing specialists, developers, bankers, operations associates, among hundreds more. Let’s talk about how you can find your place here at Stifel, where success meets success. At Stifel we offer an entrepreneurial environment, comprehensive benefits package to include health, dental and vision care, 401k, wellness initiatives, life insurance, and paid time off. Stifel is an Equal Opportunity Employer."
We need to remove duplicated lines: The "Let’s talk about how you can find your place here at Stifel, where success meets success." appears twice (intro and about Stifel). Also the benefits paragraph appears duplicated partially.
We need to keep only one instance.
We also need to remove EEO line: "Stifel is an Equal Opportunity Employer."
Also remove application instructions: "Applications are accepted until the position is filled." and "To view a more comprehensive list..." maybe keep as part of benefits? The instruction says remove application instructions. The line "To view a more comprehensive list of Stifel’s current offerings, please visit https://www.stifel.com/careers/benefits." is more like a reference; could be considered application instruction? It's not exactly applying, but it's a link for benefits. Might be okay to keep as part of benefits? Safer to remove that sentence as it's a directive. However the instruction says remove application instructions, not necessarily benefit info links. But it's a link to benefits; could be considered part of benefits section. I'd keep the benefits description but maybe drop the link sentence.
Also "Applications are accepted until the position is filled." is definitely application instruction; remove.
Now we need to format.
We'll produce:
About the role
... intro + company overview ...
But we need to avoid repeating the intro sentence twice. We'll combine the "Why Stifel" paragraph and the "About Stifel" paragraph (minus duplicated line). Let's craft:
"Why Stifel strives for a culture that puts its clients and associates first: a culture where everyone belongs, everyone is welcome, and everyone contributes to the success of our clients, their careers, and the firm as a whole. Stifel is more than 130 years old and still thinking like a start-up. We are a global wealth management and investment banking firm serious about innovation and fresh ideas. Built on a simple premise of safeguarding our clients’ money as if it were our own, coined by our namesake, Herman Stifel, our success is intimately tied to our commitment to helping families, companies, and municipalities find their own success. While our headquarters is in St. Louis, we have offices in New York, San Francisco, Baltimore, London, Frankfurt, Toronto, and more than 400 other locations. Stifel is home to approximately 9,000 individuals who are currently building their careers as financial advisors, research analysts, project managers, marketing specialists, developers, bankers, operations associates, among hundreds more."
That seems good.
Now Responsibilities: combine "What You'll Be Doing" and "What We're Looking For". We'll list as - each bullet.
We need to break into sensible items.
From "What You'll Be Doing":
- Works closely with the Electronic Trading
About the role
... intro + company overview ...
But we need to avoid repeating the intro sentence twice. We'll combine the "Why Stifel" paragraph and the "About Stifel" paragraph (minus duplicated line). Let's craft: "Why Stifel strives for a culture that puts its clients and associates first: a culture where everyone belongs, everyone is welcome, and everyone contributes to the success of our clients, their careers, and the firm as a whole. Stifel is more than 130 years old and still thinking like a start-up. We are a global wealth management and investment banking firm serious about innovation and fresh ideas. Built on a simple premise of safeguarding our clients’ money as if it were our own, coined by our namesake, Herman Stifel, our success is intimately tied to our commitment to helping families, companies, and municipalities find their own success. While our headquarters is in St. Louis, we have offices in New York, San Francisco, Baltimore, London, Frankfurt, Toronto, and more than 400 other locations. Stifel is home to approximately 9,000 individuals who are currently building their careers as financial advisors, research analysts, project managers, marketing specialists, developers, bankers, operations associates, among hundreds more." That seems good. Now Responsibilities: combine "What You'll Be Doing" and "What We're Looking For". We'll list as- each bullet. We need to break into sensible items. From "What You'll Be Doing": - Works closely with the Electronic Trading