CareerPlan

Research Engineer - Systematic Trading

USAFull-time$120k–$160k2026-10-29 → 2026-11-08

Core

Build large-scale distributed systems and research platforms used by quantitative researchers to process data, simulate markets, and bring successful ideas into production.

Role type

Senior IC software engineer (systematic trading infrastructure)

Builds

Distributed research platforms, data processing pipelines, simulation environments, and backtesting infrastructure

Domain

Quantitative finance / Systematic trading

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Systems design, data structures, algorithms, Python, C/C++/Java, distributed systems, scalability, performance optimization, resilience engineering

Preferred skills

Experience in quantitative finance or trading, background in technology companies or infrastructure teams

Technologies

Java, Python

Responsibilities

Develop infrastructure for data processing, simulation, backtesting, and large-scale experimentation; Improve speed, scalability, and reliability of research workflows; Design systems to move ideas from experimentation to production; Build robust production software with critical performance and correctness requirements