Research Engineer
About The Position
As a Research Engineer, you will be an integral member of a systematic trading team comprised of experienced technologists, quantitative researchers, and traders. You will: Work directly with researchers to implement research studies, simulate trading strategies, and develop algorithms to compete in financial markets. Embed with trading desks, work intimately with traders and portfolio managers, learn about their problem spaces, extract domain models, and build ergonomic, performant and extendable engineering solutions Collaborate with other engineering teams to accelerate the research lifecycle from strategy prototype to production deployment Evaluate new technology and improve our technology stack on a continuous basis
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related field
- A minimum of 2+ years’ experience using Python in a production setting
- A strong understanding of quantitative finance and mathematics
- Experience with linux-based, large-scale, concurrent, high-throughput, low-latency software systems
- A track record of working directly with end customers, scoping and delivering production systems in fast-moving and ambiguous environments
- Exceptional interpersonal skills - you communicate clearly with stakeholders as well as other engineers, fostering a collaborative, supportive working environment.
Nice To Haves
- Experience with low-level systems programming languages (C/C++, Rust, Zig) is a plus
- Experience with functional programming is a plus
Responsibilities
- Work directly with researchers to implement research studies, simulate trading strategies, and develop algorithms to compete in financial markets.
- Embed with trading desks, work intimately with traders and portfolio managers, learn about their problem spaces, extract domain models, and build ergonomic, performant and extendable engineering solutions
- Collaborate with other engineering teams to accelerate the research lifecycle from strategy prototype to production deployment
- Evaluate new technology and improve our technology stack on a continuous basis
Benefits
- group medical, pharmacy, dental and vision insurance
- 401k (with discretionary employer match)
- short and long-term disability
- life and AD&D insurance
- health savings accounts
- flexible spending accounts
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Number of Employees
1,001-5,000 employees
