Quantitative Developer & Research Engineer for Production Systems

Tradermath; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 175,000 - 250,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Discretionary bonus

Medical/dental/vision

401k plan

Job summary

DRW in New York seeks a Quantitative Developer/Research Engineer to join an early team building a new systematic trading platform. You will own research tooling and production practices, collaborating with researchers and trading-system engineers across the firm.

The role blends software engineering with quantitative research, ML, and data-heavy systems, requiring autonomy and mentorship within a fast-moving environment.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's, Master's, or PhD in CS, CE, or related field.
• At least two years of production software experience in Python and/or C++.
• Strong CS fundamentals in design, debugging, testing, and performance.
• Ability to learn unfamiliar systems and improve reliability and performance.
• Fluency with UNIX/Linux; OS, concurrency, networking, and performance basics.
• Record of delivering production systems in fast-moving environments.
• High ownership, good judgment, bias toward action, and clear communication.
• Collaborative across research and engineering teams.

Responsibilities

• Design and build the core research and trading platform and data pipelines.
• Collaborate with researchers to implement studies and productionize ideas.
• Develop models from feature generation to deployment and monitoring.
• Create reliable data infrastructure for large historical and real-time data.
• Improve performance and scalability of heavy workloads.
• Contribute to architecture decisions and development practices.
• Take systems from prototype to live production with reliability accountability.

Skills

Python

C++

Software design

Debugging

Performance analysis

Unix/Linux

Concurrency

Communication

Team collaboration

Education

CS degree

Computer engineering

Technical field

Tools

Git

PyTorch

CUDA

Linux kernel

Job description

DRW in New York seeks a Quantitative Developer/Research Engineer to join an early team building a new systematic trading platform. You will own research tooling and production practices, collaborating with researchers and trading-system engineers across the firm.

The role blends software engineering with quantitative research, ML, and data-heavy systems, requiring autonomy and mentorship within a fast-moving environment.