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Vacant.nl - Trading researcher R Trading researcher Robeco Engineers - Rotterdam - Robeco Engineers - 05 oktober 2026 Zuid-Holland Functieomschrijving Department Robeco is looking for a Trading Researcher to strengthen its equity trading desk. Lower cost through data-driven trading decisions. Research, develop and maintain models that assist our traders in achieving the best possible execution for Robeco's strategies. Robeco is an institutional asset manager with more than one hundred billion of assets under management for several equity investment strategies. Each investment strategy creates orders that are executed by Robeco's equity trading desk using execution algorithms serviced by brokers. These algorithms split the order into smaller pieces so that the entire order is executed slowly over, e.g., the course of the day. The main driver of execution costs is market impact, which is the adverse effect that trading has on the price, i.e., moving the price up when buying and down when selling. Your primary objective is to make our execution decisions data driven, and, thereby, lower market impact cost. What you will do - Interact with our equity traders, brokers, and portfolio managers. - This allows you to stay up to date with market developments, changes in market microstructure, and the needs of our investment strategies. - Apply advanced statistics and data-analytics to analyze our executions post trade. - Use quantitative methods, including machine learning and optimization, to provide execution recommendations pre-trade. - Apply stochastic methods and reinforcement learning methods to advise the best course of action during the execution. - Analyze large datasets with intraday data, and build infrastructure to bring data-driven decision making to our traders. - Have the latest AI models at your disposal to write clean, reproducible Python code that can be maintained and extended by the broader team, with consistent a...



