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Research Engineer (FICCO)

Chicago💼 Full-time💰 $175,000–$175,000🗓 2026-06-29 → 2026-09-26

Core

Build and optimize software infrastructure for systematic trading teams to implement research studies, simulate strategies, and deploy algorithms in financial markets.

Role type

Senior Research Engineer (Systematic Trading)

Builds

Trading strategy simulation software, large-scale data acquisition/storage systems, and user interfaces for data exploration.

Domain

Quantitative Finance / Systematic Trading

Deliverable

production ML models | product features | infrastructure

Required skills

C++, Python, object-oriented design, data structures and algorithms, quantitative finance mathematics, multi-threaded programming, computer systems knowledge (hardware, OS, memory, network)

Preferred skills

N/A

Technologies

C++, Python

Responsibilities

Implement research studies and develop algorithms to compete in financial markets; Design trading strategy simulation software optimized for distributed computation; Develop software for large scale data acquisition, storage, accessibility, and visualization; Create user interfaces for data exploration and post trade analysis; Accelerate the research lifecycle from strategy prototype to production deployment; Evaluate new technology and improve the technology stack

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