Research Engineer

Research Engineer - $200,000 - $250,000 ($450,000 TC) – Hybrid (Chicago, NYC, Greenwich, Houston) – Proprietary Trading Firm Overview:We are currently partnered with a leading Prop Trading Firm based in the US who’s FICC (Fixed Income, Currencies & Commodities) team is looking for an outstanding Research Engineer to join one of their growing teams.This is a fast-moving and progressively-thinking team that intimately collaborates with traders and quantitative researchers to implement, refine and deploy alpha signals, evaluate and maintain trading tools, improve our research pipeline, while ensuring that code bases remain nimble, maintainable and extensible.Role & Responsibilities: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 solutionsCollaborate with other engineering teams to accelerate the research lifecycle from strategy prototype to production deploymentEvaluate new technology and improve our technology stack on a continuous basisRequirements:Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or related fieldA minimum of 2+ years’ experience using Python in a production settingA strong understanding of quantitative finance and mathematicsExperience with linux-based, large-scale, concurrent, high-throughput, low-latency software systemsA track record of working directly with end customers, scoping and delivering production systems in fast-moving and ambiguous environmentsExceptional interpersonal skills - you communicate clearly with stakeholders as well as other engineers, fostering a collaborative, supportive working environment.Experience with low-level systems programming languages (C/C++, Rust, Zig) is a plusExperience with functional programming is a plusPackage:$200,000 - $250,000 Basic Salary$250,000 - $450,000 Total CompensationHybrid in one of the following locations (NYC, Greenwich, Chicago, Houston, Austin)Research Engineer - $200,000 - $250,000 ($450,000 TC) – Hybrid (Chicago, NYC, Greenwich, Houston) – Proprietary Trading Firm