WeatherBill, as featured in the Economist, Wall Street Journal, Financial Times & Newsweek is a fast-growing, well-funded, exciting startup founded by ex-Googlers - a cultural and technical mix between startup and hedge fund. WeatherBill is looking for a talented and motivated Quantitative Researcher to join our quantitative team in building our real-time pricing and risk management platform, conduct research on statistical, financial, and meteorological topics to further develop our systems and models, and participate in trading and execution of weather contracts with clients.

In addition to these core engineering and research efforts, you will work closely with sales, business development, and product teams to spec out future features and manage client-specific research efforts.
This role provides an experienced quantitative finance engineering professional with a new challenge - WeatherBill has built the world's first real-time 2-year forward weather simulation system. The simulation system powers a real-time pricing and risk management platform, that is certainly at the forefront of a burgeoning and unique asset class - weather. We are trying to grow this potentially $3Trillion+ industry by applying technology to enable simpler, faster, more automated and more efficient transfer of weather risk.

Who You are:

• 2+ years quantitative experience, ideally in a financial, actuarial, or statistics role
• Strong analytical/quantitative background or training at a financial services firm, hedge fund, research group, or insurance firm
• Experience developing quantitative systems with at least one of the following: Matlab, C++, R, or Java, SAS/STAT
• Interest in joining a small growing firm that is part hedge fund, part startup
• Graduate from top-tier university, with a degree in math, statistics, physical sciences, or related
• Preferred: Masters or PhD in same
• Preferred: Trading desk experience
• Preferred: Experience managing a team developing trading algorithms or pricing / risk management systems

What You'd Do:

• Design, develop, and deliver new features and systems for our automated weather risk management platform
• Conduct financial risk analysis, define pricing terms, and execute (trade) weather contracts with clients and counterparties
• Research and develop future pricing algorithms and models, based on proprietary statistical and meteorological research
• Ideally, manage our team quantitative team

What we offer:

• Driven, motivated, and talented team that believes in working hard and playing hard
• Energetic, idea-driven and transparent work environment
• Exciting world-changing opportunity - we are striving to do something very big about something that affects everyone
• Great location: SOMA, near the ballpark, cool, open office
• Competitive salary and great benefits, including excellent equity packages

About WeatherBill:
For more information about WeatherBill, please visit our website at http://www.weatherbill.com/about