Quant Developer & AI Research Engineer

Lazard; Greater London; On-site; GBP 65,000 - 105,000; Full time

Job summary

Lazard, a leading global financial advisory and asset management firm, seeks a Quant Developer / Researcher in London to bridge quantitative development and research. You will scale prototypes to robust production systems, build agentic AI research pipelines, and automate research workflows.

Collaboration with senior researchers and a strong Python/data stack are essential. The role emphasizes producing rigorous analyses, translating research into reusable Python infrastructure, and contributing

Qualifications

• 3–7 years of experience in quantitative dev, research engineering, or related technical role.
• Exceptional Python programming with clean, modular, tested production-quality code.

Responsibilities

• Scale research code from prototypes to production-grade implementations.
• Design and maintain agentic AI research pipelines and evaluation harnesses.
• Automate research, data, and reporting workflows end to end.

Skills

Python

LLM pipelines

Production-quality code

Profiling & optimization

NumPy

pandas

SciPy

scikit-learn

Polars / DuckDB

Agent frameworks

Education

Postgraduate qualification in quantitative discipline

Tools

R to Python migration

version control

CI/CD

Job description

Lazard, a leading global financial advisory and asset management firm, seeks a Quant Developer / Researcher in London to bridge quantitative development and research. You will scale prototypes to robust production systems, build agentic AI research pipelines, and automate research workflows.

Collaboration with senior researchers and a strong Python/data stack are essential. The role emphasizes producing rigorous analyses, translating research into reusable Python infrastructure, and contributing