Research Data Engineer

Overview

In this role you will build and maintain end-to-end data pipelines for vendor datasets used in alpha research. You’ll collaborate with researchers to onboard, clean, normalize, and featurize data, enabling robust statistical modeling and risk management. You’ll implement automated data quality checks and alerts to ensure high data reliability. By owning a data domain and partnering with sourcing teams, you’ll directly impact trading research and execution. This is a hands-on, data-driven role at a cutting-edge trading firm.

Pay / Benefits

• base salary: 200,000–300,000 USD per year
• discretionary performance-based bonuses
• competitive benefits package

Responsibilities

• Onboard, normalize, and featurize datasets for statistical modeling research
• Serve as the subject matter expert for onboarded datasets
• Partner with sourcing team to evaluate new data procurement opportunities
• Analyze data to identify and improve alpha
• Manage the full end-to-end data pipeline from raw ingestion to refined feature sets
• Provide on-call support for data issues during business hours
• Design and implement automated data quality checks and monitoring alerts

Key requirements

• Strong Python programming skills
• Proficiency in data science methodologies
• Fluency in data analysis and statistics
• Demonstrated interest in finance
• Exceptional attention to detail
• Undergraduate degree in a STEM field

• attention to detail
• cross-functional collaboration
• proactive problem-solving
• Python
• data science methodologies
• statistics

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