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Principal Quant Engineer

Boston, MA, US💼 Full-time💰 $185,000–$225,000🗓 2026-03-18 → 2026-07-31

Core

Design and implement scalable, production-grade platforms and quant tooling to support quantitative research, signal construction, evaluation, and deployment across global asset universes.

Role type

Principal Quant Engineer (Infrastructure & ML)

Builds

Scalable quant tooling, signal computation platforms, and AI/ML workflows for systematic investing

Domain

Quantitative Finance / Systematic Investing

Deliverable

production ML models | infrastructure

Required skills

Python, Polars, system design, quantitative research platform architecture, machine learning lifecycle management, distributed execution, hyper-parameter optimization

Preferred skills

PyTorch, Optuna, MLflow, AI/agent coding tools

Technologies

Python, Polars, PyTorch, Optuna, MLflow

Responsibilities

Design and implement quant tooling for signal construction and evaluation; Lead AI-centric development of core platform capabilities; Ensure platform flexibility and integration with downstream portfolio processes; Incorporate ML/AI techniques into signal construction and efficacy evaluation; Provide architectural leadership for robust, scalable research workflows; Collaborate on data access and compute resource optimization.

Seniority

Principal, hands-on IC with architectural leadership

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