Quantitative Research Engineer: AI-Driven Trading Platform

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

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401(k) with discretionary employer-mat

Disability insurance

Dental & Vision insurance

Job summary

DRW is seeking a Quantitative Developer / Research Engineer in New York to join as an early team member. You will own core research and trading platforms, data pipelines, backtesting and live tooling, partnering with researchers and engineers to deliver scalable systems.

You will productionize ML models, build robust data infra, and drive reliability and performance across fast‑moving projects within a cross‑disciplinary team.

Qualifications

• Two+ years of production software development experience, primarily in Python and/or C++.
• Strong CS fundamentals with emphasis on design, debugging, testing and performance.
• Ability to quickly understand unfamiliar systems and improve reliability and performance.
• Fluency in UNIX/Linux and understanding of OS concepts, concurrency, networking.

Responsibilities

• Design and build core research and trading platform components: data pipelines, backtesting, execution tooling.
• Collaborate with researchers to implement studies and translate ideas into robust production systems.
• Develop and productionize ML models from feature generation to deployment and monitoring.
• Create reliable data infrastructure for large historical and real‑time datasets with reproducibility.
• Improve performance and scalability of compute‑intensive workloads.
• Contribute to architecture decisions and establish development practices and testing standards.
• Take systems from prototype to production and ensure reliability in live trading.

Skills

Python

C++

UNIX/Linux

Software design

Debugging

Performance analysis

Concurrency

System reliability

Communication

Collaboration

Education

Bachelor's/Master's/PhD in CS or a technical field

Job description

DRW is seeking a Quantitative Developer / Research Engineer in New York to join as an early team member. You will own core research and trading platforms, data pipelines, backtesting and live tooling, partnering with researchers and engineers to deliver scalable systems.

You will productionize ML models, build robust data infra, and drive reliability and performance across fast‑moving projects within a cross‑disciplinary team.