Quant jobs / Millennium

Quant Research Engineer

An infrastructure-focused quant engineering role owning data pipelines and compute for research and trading, with AI tooling built into the stack. It serves quantitative researchers across teams.

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.

Maintain core quant pipelines and the research and production compute environments
Design the next-generation data and compute platform, including LLM services
Integrate new components requested by researchers
Run monitoring, alerting and infrastructure-as-code for live systems
Build AI tooling to speed up research workflows

What they ask for

Required

3–5 years of quantitative development or equivalent engineering
Modern C++ and Python for high performance
Large-scale tick and streaming data infrastructure
Cloud and parallel computing
SQL, NoSQL and distributed storage
Docker and Kubernetes
DevOps: Terraform, CI/CD, observability
LLM and agentic workflow experience

Preferred

Top-20 university background
Olympiad medals
Prior time at a top quant firm or AI company

Education: PhD-level training in computer science, engineering, physics, maths or statistics preferred
Experience: 3–5 years in quantitative development; strong AI engineering or startup background may substitute
Languages and tools: C++
Python
KDB+/q
Terraform
Kubernetes

How to prepare

Build a tick data lake with fast historical queries
Provision it with Terraform and CI/CD
Add an LLM-based tool for searching research notes, with evaluation
Learn when to choose kdb+, Spark or Dask

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