Research & Portfolio Management Engineering – Vice President
A senior engineering role in AQR's front-office quantitative research development group, supporting Global Stock Selection. The team builds the platform that generates signals and builds models for equity strategies.
What you’d work on
Our reading of the posting: what a new hire in this role would most likely spend their first months on.
- Own large, ambiguous platform projects from concept to delivery
- Extend AWS-based storage and computing for research
- Improve the data ingestion and validation engine and model computation pipeline
- Maintain machine learning and NLP pipelines
- Mentor other engineers
What they ask for
Required
- Python software engineering
- Production cloud-native systems (AWS)
- Large-scale data pipelines
- Production AI/ML systems
- Linux troubleshooting
- SQL and storage design
- Architecture and observability
Preferred
- C++
- Experience with quant research or portfolio construction systems
- Financial markets familiarity
- Education
- Bachelor's or Master's in computer science, engineering, maths or a related field.
- Experience
- 7+ years of professional software engineering
- Languages and tools
- Markets
- equities
How to prepare
- Build a cloud data pipeline with validation checks and monitoring
- Study distributed workflow orchestration for batch research jobs
- Design a scalable signal-generation and model pipeline end to end
- Learn how portfolio construction consumes alpha signals and risk models
What to study
- Quantitative Data Engineering
- Python for Quantitative Finance
- Quantitative Research, Data and Backtesting
- Professional Quant Practice
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SelfMadeQuant wrote this summary from the employer’s public posting, last checked 6 November 2026. SelfMadeQuant isn’t affiliated with AQR Capital Management and doesn’t handle applications.