Research Engineer

Overview

As a Research Engineer at HRT, you will design and build scalable software for cutting-edge quantitative research and live trading. You’ll collaborate with Algo Developers across global teams to accelerate research and deployment of ideas, from high-performance systems to deep learning models. You will tackle time-sensitive, complex problems in a fast-paced, collaborative environment and contribute to a culture that values openness and impact. This role offers the chance to shape research infrastructure and trading capabilities at a world-class firm.

Pay / Benefits

• discretionary performance-based bonuses
• competitive benefits package
• base salary 200,000–300,000 USD per year
• varied global offices
• opportunity to work in cutting-edge computing environment

Responsibilities

• Design, develop, and maintain robust, performant, and scalable software systems
• Optimize existing codebases for performance, reliability, and efficiency
• Debug complex issues across distributed systems in a time-sensitive environment
• Ergonomics and workflow improvements for Algo Developer research processes
• Share technology and ideas across trading teams in a non-pod environment
• Balance short-term team goals with longer-term platform objectives
• Support deployment and monitoring of live trading systems

Key requirements

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or related field
• Proficiency in Python or C++ with ability to interview in these languages
• Strong understanding of data structures, algorithms, and design principles
• Excellent communication skills, written and verbal
• Experience in supporting internal users and/or quant research and ML/Deep Learning platforms is a plus
• Experience with Python numerical, ML and data libraries is a plus (e.g. pandas, scikit, pytorch)
• Track record from top-tier finance or tech company with rapid advancement preferred
• Kindness and empathy in collaboration

• excellent communication
• team collaboration
• empathy and kindness
• Python
• C++
• distributed systems

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