Quant jobs / DRW

Quantitative Developer / Research Engineer – Systematic Mid-Frequency

An early-team engineer in a new systematic mid-frequency trading business combining diverse data, ML and high-performance systems. You build the research and trading platform and turn research ideas into live systems.

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.

Build data pipelines, backtesting and simulation frameworks and research APIs
Implement studies with researchers and productionise models
Build point-in-time-correct historical and real-time data infrastructure
Speed up compute-heavy research and production jobs
Own live system reliability

What they ask for

Required

2+ years of production software in Python and/or C++
Computer science fundamentals
Debugging, testing and performance analysis
Linux, concurrency and networking
Delivering production systems in ambiguous settings
Degree in a technical field

Preferred

PyTorch deep learning
GPU computing or distributed training
ML or data pipelines in production
Maths, statistics or optimisation

Education: Bachelor's, master's or PhD in computer science, computer engineering or another technical field
Experience: At least 2 years of production software; finance experience not required
Languages and tools: Python
C++
PyTorch

How to prepare

Build a backtester that enforces point-in-time data correctness
Profile and speed up a heavy research workload
Practise Linux, concurrency and testing for production code
Learn a basic ML training and deployment pipeline

What to study

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