Quantitative Trading & Research - Quantitative Developer - Associate

J.P. Morgan; Worcester (MA); On-site; USD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

J.P. Morgan is seeking a quantitative developer to bridge research and production for AI-driven systematic trading. You will design high-performance, low-latency components that integrate models with real-time data and trading systems.

You will collaborate with researchers and traders to turn ambiguous requirements into clean interfaces, robust services, and reproducible workflows while managing latency, determinism, and operational risk across production environments.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s, Master’s, or PhD in computer science, engineering, mathematics, or related field.
• 2+ years of professional software engineering, quantitative development, or ML infra.
• Strong modern C++ skills: data structures, concurrency, memory management.
• Proficiency in Python and software for quantitative researchers or data apps.
• Understanding of distributed systems, testing, reliability, end-to-end operations.
• Ownership of performance-critical systems from design to incident resolution.

Responsibilities

• Design and build high-performance market-data, feature, backtesting, and monitoring components for systematic trading.
• Develop low-latency C++ services integrating models with real-time data and order-management systems.
• Build scalable data and research pipelines for historical data, experiments, and distributed compute.
• Optimize paths for throughput, tail latency, memory use, resilience, and determinism with profiling.
• Productionize ML models including training, versioning, real-time inference, and deployment.
• Collaborate with researchers and traders to translate requirements into robust software and live systems.

Skills

C++ programming

Python proficiency

Distributed systems

Low-latency design

ML infrastructure

Software engineering

Education

Bachelor’s/Master’s/PhD in CS/Engineering/Math

Tools

PyTorch

JAX

CUDA

Kafka

Kubernetes

Spark

Job description

The Quantitative Trading & Research (QTR) group is responsible for systematic trading across FX, Rates, Commodities, Credit, Equity and a wide range of markets. Within QTR, AI Market Lab brings together quantitative research, modern artificial intelligence, market microstructure, and high-performance engineering to develop the next generation of electronic trading capabilities. Our work spans signal research, pricing, market making, execution, portfolio construction, risk management, and the production systems that support them.

We are seeking a quantitative developer to build the research and production technology behind AI-driven systematic trading. You will work at the boundary of quantitative research, low-latency engineering, and ML infrastructure, creating reliable platforms that shorten the path from raw market data and research prototypes to monitored, resilient production strategies.

This role is ideal for engineers who enjoy turning ambiguous research requirements into clean interfaces, fast systems, and reproducible workflows—without losing sight of trading realities like latency, determinism, and operational risk.

Job Responsibilities

• Design and build high-performance market-data, feature-computation, backtesting, simulation, model-serving, execution, and monitoring components for systematic trading.
• Develop reliable low-latency C++ services and APIs that integrate quantitative models with real-time market data, pricing, risk controls, and order-management systems.
• Build scalable data and research pipelines that support granular historical data, reproducible experiments, distributed computation, and rapid strategy iteration.
• Optimize critical paths for throughput, tail latency, memory efficiency, resilience, and deterministic behavior; use profiling and measurement to guide engineering decisions.
• Productionize machine-learning models, including training workflows, model versioning, real-time inference, deployment automation, observability, and rollback controls.
• Partner with researchers and traders to translate strategy requirements into robust software, improve research-to-production consistency, and support live systems.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s, Master’s, or PhD in computer science, engineering, mathematics, or a related technical discipline (or equivalent professional experience).
• 2+ years of professional experience in software engineering, quantitative development, low-latency systems, or ML infrastructure.
• Strong modern C++ skills: data structures, concurrency, memory management, performance profiling, and production debugging.
• Proficiency in Python and experience building software for quantitative researchers or other data-intensive applications.
• Solid understanding of distributed systems, testing, software design, reliability, and operating production services end-to-end.
• Evidence of owning performance-critical systems from design → deployment → monitoring → incident resolution.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with electronic trading architecture: exchange connectivity, market-data normalization, order management, pre-trade risk, or execution systems.
• Knowledge of Linux performance engineering: kernel/network tuning, lock-free programming, hardware-aware optimization, or FPGA-adjacent systems.
• Experience with ML/data tooling such as PyTorch, JAX, CUDA, GPU clusters, Ray, Kafka, Kubernetes, Spark, or comparable technologies.
• Understanding of market microstructure, backtesting pitfalls, transaction costs, and the operational needs of live quantitative strategies.
• Experience in environments operating real-time systems (hedge fund, proprietary trading firm, market maker, exchange, or financial institution).

J.P. Morgan is a global leader in financial services, providing strategic advice and products to the world’s most prominent corporations, governments, wealthy individuals and institutional investors. Our first-class business in a first-class way approach to serving clients drives everything we do. We strive to build trusted, long-term partnerships to help our clients achieve their business objectives.

We recognize that our people are our strength and the diverse talents they bring to our global workforce are directly linked to our success. We are an equal opportunity employer and place a high value on diversity and inclusion at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of any protected attribute, including race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital or veteran status, pregnancy or disability, or any other basis protected under applicable law. We also make reasonable accommodations for applicants’ and employees’ religious practices and beliefs, as well as mental health or physical disability needs. Visit our FAQs for more information about requesting an accommodation.

J.P. Morgan’s Commercial & Investment Bank is a global leader across banking, markets, securities services and payments. Corporations, governments and institutions throughout the world entrust us with their business in more than 100 countries. The Commercial & Investment Bank provides strategic advice, raises capital, manages risk and extends liquidity in markets around the world. We are seeking a quantitative developer to build the research and production technology behind AI-driven systematic trading.