Software Engineer - Research

IMC; Sydney; On-site; AUD 120,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

IMC is seeking a Research Engineer to help build and deploy pipelines that take research ideas to production at scale. You will collaborate with researchers and traders, designing efficient data ingestion, model validators, and deployment strategies across a broad toolkit including Python and C++.

You will work across multiple projects, identifying integration gaps and choosing the best approach to deliver robust, scalable solutions for real-time trading environments.

Qualifications

• Curiosity about how systems fit together and identify gaps.
• Ability to juggle multiple projects and find connections.
• Willingness to use the best tool for the job and learn new ones.

Tools

Python

C++

SQL

Tool-agnostic problem solving

Job description

The Research Engineering team develops and deploys the pipelines connecting a research idea all the way to its rollout in production. We exist to ensure that the entire pipeline describing our research is efficient, effective, and scalable. People in our team are avid collaborators and work in tight feedback loops with our researchers. We talk through problems on desk, prepare solutions same day, and work out how to deploy safely for tomorrow.

The scope of the team covers anything that accelerates the path from research to production at massive scale. This could be designing our external data ingestion pipelines, writing our feature discovery and storage systems, building our model validators and experiment trackers, authoring and deploying a bespoke algorithm, or figuring out how to roll out something novel.

We use a broad toolkit including Python, C++ and internal domain-specific languages, and are happy to pick up new tools and languages as required.

About you

• You're naturally curious about how other teams' systems work, not just your own, and you often end up being the person who spots where things won't fit together before it becomes a problem.
• You enjoy working on many projects at once, seeing connections and opportunities between them which others miss.
• You’re motivated to solve issues with whatever tool is best, rather than a preference towards deep specialisation in one area.
• You like working with stakeholders across the business and you're good at figuring out what someone actually needs, not just what they asked for

What you don’t need

A finance background. Every language we touch. A particular set of years in any particular role. We hire engineers who like to solve the problems our traders face - we'll teach you the context on the ground.

About Us

IMC is a global trading firm powered by a cutting-edge research environment and a world-class technology backbone. Since 1989, we’ve been a stabilizing force in financial markets, providing essential liquidity upon which market participants depend. Across our offices in the US, Europe, Asia Pacific, and India, our talented quant researchers, engineers, traders, and business operations professionals are united by our uniquely collaborative, high-performance culture, and our commitment to giving back. From entering dynamic new markets to embracing disruptive technologies, and from developing an innovative research environment to diversifying our trading strategies, we dare to continuously innovate and collaborate to succeed.