Most of the jobs from the prior month still apply currently.

1) Stat Arb PMs - Global

2) OMM Quant Dev (2 groups) - NYC

3) FI Quant Dev – Chicago; small agile firm, 5+ years exp. C++

4) Equities Quant Dev – NYC; C++.

5) Futures/CTA Jr. Quant - Chicago

6) Data Dev – NYC; 5-10 years exp, Perl/C++/SQL/Unix/Windows, no cap on comp

7) Infra Developer – start up, C++, 5+ years exp.

8 ) Programmer - C++, 1-2 years exp, finance not needed, open source junkie, top school.

As a reminder, the reason for the very brief job descriptions is many of my clients prefer their jobs remain confidential. Much of what I could post would be fluff anyways and boiler plate descriptions are worse in my opinion than job titles. If you are interested in these jobs or speaking in general, please send me an email and we can setup a time to talk.

I’m hoping to post a bit more info on non-competes shortly, but this article came across my desk yesterday:

High-Frequency Trading Rivals In Suit Over Hiring Of Astrophysicist

Via Forbes: Houston firm Quantlab Financial claims rival Tower Research Capital of New York intends to hire Yongzhong Xu. (Read More)

UPDATE: (Ctrl-C / Ctrl-V….)

Accused Soc Gen High Frequency Thief Was Headed To Tower Research

Via DealBreaker: The former Societe Generale trader arrested yesterday on charges of stealing Soc Gen’s computer code for high-frequency trading was set to begin work this week at Tower Research Capital, a New York based quantitative hedge fund, according to a source.  Samarth Agrawal was charged yesterday with one count of theft of trade secrets,

EuroHedge Awards 2009 (click for link) - Congrats to all the winners below and in particular funds with more Quantitative focus.  As I’ve noted prior, although I myself am US based, my geographic scope hasn’t been limited and I’ve been also able to extend my reach from the UK to now Asia also.  For more information about a couple of the funds below, please feel free to reach out to me.

EDIT: I had mistakenly copied and pasted the 2008 Award winners in my past post.  The correct winners are now posted below.

Winners:

UK EQUITY
GLG Alpha Select

SMALL CAP
AlphaGen Volantis

EUROPEAN EQUITY (under $500m)
Zebedee Focus

EUROPEAN EQUITY (over $500m)
AlphaGen Tucana

GLOBAL EQUITY
AlphaGen Rhocas

EMERGING MARKET EQUITY
SR Global Emerging

EQUITY MARKET NEUTRAL & QUANT STRATEGIES
GSA Capital International

EVENT DRIVEN
York European Focus

CONVERTIBLES & VOLATILITY STRATEGIES
Jabcap Global Convertible

FIXED INCOME
Pelagus Capital

CREDIT & DISTRESSED
Fortelus Special Situations

EMERGING MARKETS (DEBT & MACRO)
Pharo Trading

COMMODITIES
Armajaro Commodities
BlueGold Global

MANAGED FUTURES & CURRENCY
IKOS G10 Currency

GLOBAL MACRO
Pharo Macro

MULTI-STRATEGY
CQS Directional Opportunities

NEW FUND OF THE YEAR - EQUITY STRATEGIES
Marshall Wace Global Opportunities

NEW FUND OF THE YEAR - RELATIVE VALUE & MACRO
Numen Credit Opportunities

LONG TERM PERFORMANCE – EQUITY STRATEGIES
Lansdowne Global Financials

LONG TERM PERFORMANCE – RELATIVE VALUE & MACRO
Brevan Howard

MANAGEMENT FIRM OF THE YEAR
BlueCrest Capital Management

FUND OF THE YEAR
Jabcap Multi-Strategy

As normal full additional information can be disclosed via a call and not all jobs are posted.

1) HF PM (NA) - multiple groups globally.

2) Senior OMM Quant (NYC)

3) Stat Arb Quant Trader (NYC) – top fund, 2+ years exp, hands on programming, top BS

4) Risk Quant – 2+ years exp, hands on programming

5) Equity Quant (NYC)

6) Quant Developer (NYC) – Small agile HF group, 3+ years exp, MS/PhD required, C++

7) Senior Programmer (CT) – Medium size fund, 3+ years exp (OO, C++, Java)

8 ) Mid Level Programmer (CT) – 3+ year exp, .Net (C# or Java), top school BS

9) C++ Dev (NY or London) – prop group, C++, 2+ years exp, finance exp not needed.

10) System Admin (2-NYC)

2010 has brought on quite a few changes and on my end that’s been no different. In early December I amicably left my prior firm. I have nothing but positive things to say about the group I worked in.

That said I’ve branched out on my own and started my firm M. Moye Consulting.  While having my own firm is slightly different, much will stay the same on my end. My simple philosophy on recruiting will continue to be to partner with firms/groups that I enjoy working with and find them people that match their goals/needs within my network.

Regarding the boring name… From working with many different hedge funds and groups I’ve always thought it was interesting how they came up with their names and what mine would be in the future. Although I had some “pretty cool” names, which my wife rolled her eyes at each, I decided to keep it simple and get to work. Unfortunately “Moye Consulting” and “Moye Associates”  were both taken, thus the single initial was born.

I’ll keep this short and sweet but if any of my connections would like to catch up my new email address is matt.moye (at) mmoyeconsulting.

Rohit D’Souza was on vacation with his family in India in May 2008 when he got a call from Ken Griffin, founder and chief executive officer of Citadel Investment Group LLC. Griffin wanted the banker, who had just quit his job as head of equity trading and sales at Merrill Lynch & Co., to help him do something no other hedge fund had ever tried…. (Link to Full Story: Bloomberg)

Update, a day later…: Citadel Suffers Setback as D’Souza Leaves Firm After a Year

This is nothing new to the Europe but I’ve been hearing about it for a while over in the States:

A flood of U.S. firms have streamed into Europe’s carbon credit trading system; in this and other ways firms are forging ahead under the assumption that the Senate will pass a climate change bill that creates a market for trading carbon credits. By Penny Crosman

Read More… via WS&T

• AMM Quant - mid level experience, ability to drive a group
• Senior Quant Traders - Equity Prop Trading
• Quant Dev - Lead - R/S plus, C++
• Risk Quant - Equity Derivatives
• Head of App Development - execution management and order management platform
• Quant Developer - C/C++, mathematical packages (Matlab, etc), 1-2 years in finance
• FI Quant Developer - C++, treasuries a plus
• Mid/Senior Level Developer - C++/Python
• Mid Level Developer - Java/C++/Python, 1-3 years experienc

All of these roles have full descriptions that can be sent or described verbally.  These are not opportunistic submittals, rather full job specs.

As normal full additional information can be disclosed via a call and not all jobs are posted. Secondly, as amusing as I find it to get cold calls from other recruiters pretending to be candidates, please don’t waste either of our time.

• FX High Freq Traders (NY) – both with track records or pure backtests

• Equities Quant (NY) Junior and Mid-level (1-5 years) – Asset manager

• Equities Derivatives Trading (NY) – min of 5 years track record, established team with strong foundation.

• C# Junior Software Dev (Chicago) – opportunity for someone young to get into an established prop firm

• C++ Mid Level Developer (NY) - 1-2 years experience outside finance, extremely strong Unix and C++ required, top schools only.

• Commodities Quant / Quant Trader (NY) - Very unique opportunity for someone with 1+ year experience in either FX/Futures/or commodities.  Ability to run own book eventually.  Someone who is a real self starter and has a very strong background.