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I am kindly and willfully seeking input and feedback of the community.
I do have an extensive applied engineering and applied math background with PhD in aerospace engineering. Have taken many many classes ranging from real analysis, to complex analaysis, topology, number theory, linear abstract spaces etc... Have implemented many SW, algo's in aerospace, autonomous driving, etc, and have been working on real-time signal analysis, uncertainty quantification, assesment of data etc... I have always been in stocks, markets, and have been interested in implementing math to finance, and expecially signal processing part (mid-range frequencty trading algos). I am trying to make a shift to algo trading, quant world to the world of quantitative analysis, research etc, and I am having very hard time to break in. No one responds, and even if my background (math) is very applicable, I am having very difficult time to get an interview, and to see what they even look for, what I lack, what they seek etc... Any input would be greatly appreciated. Including my PhD etc, I do have 20+yrs of experience, where last 13 years have been industry, SW, algo development driven.
* One Last note before replies: I do have a solid understanding of coding and research, but one thing I have been experiencing and even witnessing here in recourses is everything is C++ and coding. Thats not quant research, thats pure SW eng and system integration. I do see a heavy shift that people are not even looking at any researcher any more, but mules to code their own algos etc... Just do what I say, type of mentality. They give the algo, code this with most optimized way, min delay, min latency, and max efficiency etc etc etc... That's pure SW engineering.... Also any thoughts on this would be greatly appreciated as well!
I do have an extensive applied engineering and applied math background with PhD in aerospace engineering. Have taken many many classes ranging from real analysis, to complex analaysis, topology, number theory, linear abstract spaces etc... Have implemented many SW, algo's in aerospace, autonomous driving, etc, and have been working on real-time signal analysis, uncertainty quantification, assesment of data etc... I have always been in stocks, markets, and have been interested in implementing math to finance, and expecially signal processing part (mid-range frequencty trading algos). I am trying to make a shift to algo trading, quant world to the world of quantitative analysis, research etc, and I am having very hard time to break in. No one responds, and even if my background (math) is very applicable, I am having very difficult time to get an interview, and to see what they even look for, what I lack, what they seek etc... Any input would be greatly appreciated. Including my PhD etc, I do have 20+yrs of experience, where last 13 years have been industry, SW, algo development driven.
* One Last note before replies: I do have a solid understanding of coding and research, but one thing I have been experiencing and even witnessing here in recourses is everything is C++ and coding. Thats not quant research, thats pure SW eng and system integration. I do see a heavy shift that people are not even looking at any researcher any more, but mules to code their own algos etc... Just do what I say, type of mentality. They give the algo, code this with most optimized way, min delay, min latency, and max efficiency etc etc etc... That's pure SW engineering.... Also any thoughts on this would be greatly appreciated as well!
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