Quantitative Developer & Research Engineer

P2P; New York (NY); On-site; USD 175,000 - 250,000; Full time

Job summary

DRW, a diversified trading firm, is building a new systematic, mid-frequency trading business in NY. As a Quantitative Developer / Research Engineer, you will be an early member with meaningful ownership of its systems, research tooling, and engineering practices.

You will work closely with researchers and trading-system engineers, combining autonomy with strong mentorship. You will operate at the intersection of quantitative research and software engineering, turning ideas into reliable systems

Qualifications

• A bachelor's, master's, or PhD in computer science, computer engineering, or a technical field.
• At least two years building production software, primarily in Python and/or C++, with cross-language ability.
• Strong fundamentals in CS, software design, debugging, testing, and performance analysis.
• Ability to enter an unfamiliar system, model it clearly, and improve reliability and performance.
• Proficiency with UNIX/Linux, OS concepts, concurrency, networking, and system performance.
• Track record of delivering production systems in fast-moving or ambiguous environments.
• High ownership, sound judgment, and bias toward action; strong cross-disciplinary communication.

Responsibilities

• Design and build core research and trading platform components (data pipelines, backtesting, simulation, tooling, APIs).
• Collaborate with researchers to implement studies, test hypotheses, and productionize ideas.
• Develop and productionize ML models from feature generation to deployment and monitoring.
• Build reliable data infrastructure for large historical and real-time datasets with accuracy and performance in mind.
• Improve performance and scalability of compute-heavy research and production workloads.
• Contribute to architecture and development practices with trading-system engineers.
• Take prototypes to production and ensure reliability post-launch.

Skills

Python

C++

Software design

Debugging

Testing

Performance analysis

Unix/Linux

Concurrency

Education

Bachelor's degree in CS/Engineering

Master's degree or PhD preferred

Job description

DRW, a diversified trading firm, is building a new systematic, mid-frequency trading business in NY. As a Quantitative Developer / Research Engineer, you will be an early member with meaningful ownership of its systems, research tooling, and engineering practices.

You will work closely with researchers and trading-system engineers, combining autonomy with strong mentorship. You will operate at the intersection of quantitative research and software engineering, turning ideas into reliable systems