Research and Portfolio Management Engineering - Vice President
About The Position
AQR Capital Management is a global investment management firm seeking a strong technical engineer to join their Research Engineering team, specifically focusing on the Global Stock Selection group. This role will involve strengthening business initiatives within the Quantitative Research Development (QRD) group, which supports Global Stock Selection Research. The QRD team maintains a sophisticated infrastructure and tooling environment, manages a complex production process involving numerous workflows and large datasets, and is responsible for signal generation, model construction, and various aspects of portfolio construction. The team collaborates closely with researchers to develop new systematic investment strategies and refine existing ones, applying technology expertise and market understanding to implement research ideas and develop systems. The ideal candidate is a technical individual contributor comfortable driving large, ambiguous initiatives from concept to delivery, mentoring engineers, and working collaboratively across disciplines and geographies. A commitment to intellectual integrity, transparency, and openness is essential.
Requirements
- Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related technical field.
- 7+ years of professional software engineering experience designing and delivering production software systems.
- Experience building and deploying cloud-native applications, preferably using AWS services and modern cloud infrastructure.
- Experience developing and optimizing large-scale data processing pipelines and working with big data technologies.
- Experience designing, building, and operating production-scale AI/ML applications, with a strong focus on system stability, reliability, and scalability.
- Strong understanding of software architecture, scalability, performance optimization, observability, and operational excellence for production systems.
- Strong software engineering skills in Python; experience with C++ is a plus.
- Strong Linux development and troubleshooting experience in production environments.
- Proficiency with SQL and experience designing and optimizing data storage and retrieval for high-volume applications.
- Demonstrated ability to work effectively in fast-paced, agile environments with evolving requirements and competing priorities.
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to clearly explain technical concepts and architectural decisions across engineering teams.
Nice To Haves
- Experience supporting quantitative research, alpha generation platforms, signal generation, portfolio construction, or trade generation systems is a strong plus.
- Familiarity with financial markets, investment workflows, or time-sensitive distributed applications is a plus.
Responsibilities
- Build or extend scalable, AWS-based storage and computing infrastructure.
- Build or extend a generalized research platform.
- Build or extend a data ingestion and validation engine.
- Build or extend a model computation and signal generation pipeline.
- Build or extend a machine learning / Natural Language Processing pipeline.
Benefits
- paid time off
- medical/dental/vision insurance
- 401(k)
- annual discretionary bonus
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Executive
