Fixed Income Quantitative Analyst

Job Description:

Note: Fidelity will not provide immigration sponsorship for this position.

The Group

QRI is an investments and research division within Asset Management at Fidelity. QRI is responsible for managing and developing quantitative and hybrid quant/fundamental investment strategies and solutions while also providing high quality quantitative, data-driven research to Fidelity’s investment professionals, ensuring they have access to the most relevant data and advanced quantitative analysis.

The Role

Fidelity is seeking to hire a Quantitative Analyst to join its Quantitative Research and Investments (QRI) division. This position will be in Fidelity’s office in Merrimack, New Hampshire. The analyst will work with members of a 25-person QRI team embedded with Fidelity’s Fixed Income division, as well as investment professionals across the division, to develop quantitative techniques, models, and tools that support and strengthen trading and investment processes for Fidelity’s fixed income mutual funds and client accounts.

This role will focus on Rates and Securitized Markets, with primary responsibility for building and improving arbitrage-free interest rate models. The analyst will also build and enhance valuation models for inflation-protected securities, interest rate derivatives, and will develop relative value strategies for Rates products, including options. The analyst will partner closely with Rates Traders and Securitized Traders to build processes and tools that expose model outputs used in daily decision-making, including outputs from interest-rate, prepayment, and valuation models used by the Securitized desk.

This is a rare opportunity to work with high-caliber investment professionals in one of the premier fixed income investment management divisions in the world, which manages over $2 trillion in assets. As an ideal candidate, you will have demonstrated consistent success in your academic and work experience. You will have very strong analytical and communication skills and exhibit the highest level of personal and professional integrity. You will be able to think creatively, work independently, and make decisions quickly, often with limited information. Your ability to consistently develop, clearly articulate, and effectively communicate investment recommendations supported by a comprehensive and thoughtful research process is critical to success in investment management at Fidelity.

The Value You Deliver

• Build, maintain, and improve arbitrage-free interest rate modeling infrastructure for Securitized and other investment teams

• Develop and enhance valuation models for inflation-linked securities and rate derivatives, including Treasury futures, non-USD bond futures, and swaptions

• Design and implement relative value strategies for Rates products using curve-fitting, mean-reversion, and regression techniques

• Partner closely with Rates and Securitized traders to create, evaluate, and improve pre-trade, at-trade, and post-trade analytics

• Build robust interactive tools and processes that expose outputs from interest-rate, prepayment, and securitized valuation models to trading teams

• Collaborate with investment and technology professionals to put models into production and improve research-to-trading workflows

• Explain complex quantitative concepts and model behavior clearly to non-technical stakeholders

• Take initiative and demonstrate leadership in advancing the investment process

The Expertise and Skills You Bring

These attributes are indispensable:

• 3+ years of industry experience as a quantitative analyst in Fixed Income domain

• Strong programming experience in Python (preferred) or another quantitative modeling language

• Deep comfort with applied mathematics, statistics, and numerical methods

• Demonstrated expertise in technical and financial problem solving

• Experience with complex SQL programming and data modeling for large-scale market and analytics datasets

• Strong interpersonal and verbal communication skills with an eagerness to work in a collaborative team environment

These attributes are strongly preferred:

• Experience building arbitrage-free term-structure models (e.g., one-factor/two-factor short-rate or related frameworks)

• Experience with securitized products analytics, including prepayment modeling concepts

• Familiarity with inflation-linked products and cross-market Rates relative value analysis

• Advanced degree in a STEM discipline

• Interest and passion for investing and global fixed income markets

• Familiarity with fixed income trading workflows, market microstructure, and pricing

• Experience working with fixed income trading platforms such as Tradeweb, MarketAxess, ICE, Bloomberg, etc.

Fidelity’s Onsite Working Model
Fidelity is transitioning to a full-time onsite working model through a phased rollout across regions and roles. Currently, some roles and locations require 100% onsite presence, while others require less. Onsite expectations are likely to evolve as the rollout continues. This transition does not apply to fully remote roles.

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Investment Professionals

Please be advised that Fidelity’s business is governed by the provisions of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the Investment Advisers Act of 1940, the Investment Company Act of 1940, ERISA, numerous state laws governing securities, investment and retirement-related financial activities and the rules and regulations of numerous self-regulatory organizations, including FINRA, among others. Those laws and regulations may restrict Fidelity from hiring and/or associating with individuals with certain Criminal Histories.