Quantitative Researcher

About Us

Engelhart was founded in 2013 by BTG Pactual Group as a commodities trading company. Our business model is “asset light” and highly diversified – giving us the ability to adapt effectively and nimbly to changing market conditions. We have assembled successful multidisciplinary teams, leveraging advanced fundamental analysis with deep quantitative and weather research capabilities.  Our activities are underpinned by strong risk management practices and by powerful technology and operational excellence. We have exceptional teams with diverse global backgrounds and decades of experience, and are driven by a highly collaborative culture, across products and competencies.

In 2024, Engelhart acquired Trailstone, a global energy trading and technology company. The acquisition provides us with new expertise, analytics and proprietary technology which is being used to provide risk management and optimisation services to help maximise the value of our clients’ renewable power. The acquisition also expanded Engelhart’s capabilities into physical natural gas across North America, a critical fuel to support the energy transition.

Our talented and experienced individuals work together according to its four company values: be bold, be collaborative, be proactive, be your best.

This is an exciting opportunity for a Quantitative Researcher to join a very dynamic Japan Power Trading Team, based in Tokyo. You will be working closely with Japan Power market experts supported by systems engineers, fundamental analysts, weather scientists. The team operates day-ahead and curve trading based on collaborative trading idea generation, leveraging our advanced proprietary trading models.

This position is based in Tokyo and reports to the Japan Power Trader based in Tokyo.

Role and Responsibilities:

• Solve challenging commercial problems by applying advanced optimization, statistical and ML algorithms.
• Partner closely with various analytical and trading teams across organization.
• Build scalable and highly performing analytical tools.
• Drive projects for the continued build out of the overall state-of-the-art technology platform.

Essential Education:

• B.S. in either Physics, Mathematics, Electrical Engineering or Computer Science
• plus a M.S. of Science or PhD in a STEM subject

Requirements:

• Minimum of 1 year hands-on research experience within financial organization
• Practical knowledge of the latest advances within prediction, classification and optimization algorithms and their application to the commercial problems
• Strong numerical and programming skills, preferable within Python environment
• Proficient with object-oriented design and programming
• Ability to successfully operate in a fast-paced trading environment
• Strong communication skills and team spirit
• Front office commodities (power in particular) experience is not a requirement, deep knowledge in this area will be developed with the support of internal experts.
• Professional proficiency required in both Japanese and English.

We believe in inclusivity and are therefore dedicated to ensuring all employees – across gender identity, race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, religion, life experience, background and more – feel welcome and included in the company. We promote diversity because we believe it is essential to our ability to think holistically.