Quant jobs / G-Research
Quantitative Data Engineer
A data engineering role in G-Research's engineering team that takes raw datasets through to live signals. It uses large language models to automate and scale that process.
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.
- Onboard third-party datasets with pipelines, normalisation and validation
- Work with researchers to engineer features and signals
- Use LLM-based agents to automate ingestion-to-signal workflows
- Build reusable tools that help researchers scale their work
What they ask for
Required
- Good degree in a quantitative subject
- Strong software engineering and data skills
- Algorithms and data structures
- Production data pipelines in Python
- Probability and statistics on real data
Preferred
- Hands-on LLM agents and workflows
- Education
- At least a 2:1 or equivalent in maths, statistics, CS, physics or engineering
- Experience
- Experience building production data pipelines; finance experience not needed
- Languages and tools
How to prepare
- Build a pipeline in Python that ingests, validates and normalises a messy public dataset
- Practise data-quality checks such as schema drift, duplicates and timestamp errors
- Try an LLM-assisted data task and measure how often it is wrong
- Brush up algorithms and data structures for interviews
What to study
- Quantitative Data Engineering
- Python for Quantitative Finance
- Probability, Statistics and Financial Data
- Python and Data Primer
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SelfMadeQuant wrote this summary from the employer’s public posting, last checked 6 November 2026. SelfMadeQuant isn’t affiliated with G-Research and doesn’t handle applications.
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