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Software Engineer – Research

A research engineer who builds the pipelines that carry a research idea into production, from data ingestion to model validation. It works day to day with researchers in Hong Kong.

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 external data ingestion pipelines for research
Create feature discovery and storage systems
Develop model validators and experiment trackers
Deploy and roll out algorithms safely to production

What they ask for

Required

Production code in Python and C++
Curiosity about other teams' systems
Comfort juggling many projects
Pragmatic tool choices
Working with research stakeholders
Past ownership of something in production

Education: No degree level stated; no finance background needed
Experience: Commercial experience owning production software; no fixed years
Languages and tools: Python
C++

How to prepare

Build a reproducible experiment tracker for a small research project
Write Python with C++ extensions for a hot path
Design a feature store with versioned datasets
Learn how research becomes a deployed model

What to study

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SelfMadeQuant wrote this summary from the employer’s public posting, last checked 6 November 2026. SelfMadeQuant isn’t affiliated with IMC Trading and doesn’t handle applications.