Quantitative Research Analyst (m/f/d) in Berlin

YUKKA turns unstructured news into measurable signals for financial institutions. We hold 15 years of quantified news data and deliver it through a cockpit, an API, reports and agents to risk, investment, ESG and credit teams at banks and asset managers.

The role

You will be part of our Quantitative Research team, which we are building here in Berlin. Together we turn news data into investment and risk use cases: you design, test and document systematic equity and risk models that combine YUKKA’s sentiment signals with market data, and help take them from notebook to production and into client conversations. You will work closely with data engineering, AI/NLP and our client-facing team.

What you will do

• Design, validate and document quantitative models that combine market and proprietary sentiment data
• Apply statistical and econometric methods to risk and return analysis
• Build Python research pipelines, including backtesting, performance attribution and robustness tests
• Use and improve our data infrastructure for empirical research and investment analytics
• Prepare research reports, white papers and visualisations for internal stakeholders, investors and clients
• Work with data engineering to deploy research signals into production

What you bring

• A degree in finance, statistics, economics, mathematics or a related field, and 0–2 years of professional experience in research or analysis
• Strong Python skills (clean, reproducible code) and day-to-day work with Git

  Working in German and English is beneficial but not required.

• A solid grounding in finance, statistics and economics
• The ability to read academic papers, derive hypotheses and test them on our infrastructure
• Clear written and spoken English; you can explain a model to a portfolio manager, a client and an engineer, each in their own terms
• Practical AI fluency: you use agentic coding tools in your workflow and review their output critically

Nice to have: CFA (or progress towards it); software engineering experience; German.

What we offer

• Fixed annual salary + performance bonus
• The hardware and tools you need for your research (laptop, monitors, more on request)
• Reimbursement of CFA exam fees for each level you pass
• A full-time role in Berlin

How we work

We value empathy, thoughtfulness and learning from our colleagues and our mistakes. Real innovation takes time, hard work and attention to detail, and we give ourselves room to think about hard problems. We are AI-first in practice, not slogan. Our team language is English, German is a plus.

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