Research Engineer

Overview

You join G-Research in London as a Research Engineer, partnering with researchers to translate ideas into scalable, production-grade systems. You’ll work on trading, modelling, simulation, and research tooling, using C# and Python in our data-centre environment. The role blends high-impact software engineering with financial research, enabling large-scale experiments and ML-driven insights. You will shape platforms that accelerate discovery and bridge research and production, contributing to a mission of predicting the future in markets.

Pay / Benefits

• competitive compensation plus annual discretionary bonus
• Lunch provided via Just Eat for Business
• 35 days’ annual leave
• 9% company pension contributions
• Comprehensive healthcare and life assurance
• Cycle-to-work scheme

Responsibilities

• Deliver high-quality, well-engineered software with strong architectural awareness
• Take end-to-end ownership of solutions from concept to delivery
• Collaborate with researchers and other stakeholders to realise ideas in production
• Optimize performance and scalability of trading and research systems
• Contribute to back-testing and research tooling to validate strategies
• Stay ahead of new technologies and drive their adoption
• Communicate clearly across audiences and adapt style as needed
• Support open collaboration and relationships across the business

Key requirements

• Strong knowledge of algorithms, data structures and software fundamentals
• Interest in quantitative finance and engineering within it
• Ability to prioritise and deliver measurable business impact
• Proactive in identifying scalable improvements and optimisations
• Sound judgement balancing approaches and making trade-offs
• Effective communication and cross-functional collaboration

• communication
• collaboration
• problem-solving
• C#
• Python
• performance optimization

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