Senior Staff Engineer, Research & High-Performance Simulation

Acquire Me; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 150,000 - 230,000; Full time

Job summary

Acquire Me in Chicago seeks a Staff Software Engineer to lead the research and simulation systems behind our systematic trading strategies. You will build high-performance infrastructure for large-scale experimentation and backtesting, enabling researchers and traders to run experiments and validate ideas with live-market fidelity.

You will tackle distributed compute, large-scale data, and performance challenges, improving speed and realism of simulations and expanding the number of ideas that

Qualifications

• Strong CS fundamentals.
• Experience with distributed systems or data-intensive platforms.
• Proficiency in one or more of C++, C, Rust, or Java.

Responsibilities

• Build high-performance infrastructure for large-scale experimentation and backtesting.
• Improve the speed, accuracy and realism of trading simulations.
• Develop systems that allow researchers to test significantly more strategy ideas.
• Solve challenging problems across distributed compute, large-scale data and performance.

Skills

C++

C

Rust

Java

Distributed systems

High-performance compute

Data-intensive platforms

Tools

Linux

Backtesting systems

Job description

Acquire Me in Chicago seeks a Staff Software Engineer to lead the research and simulation systems behind our systematic trading strategies. You will build high-performance infrastructure for large-scale experimentation and backtesting, enabling researchers and traders to run experiments and validate ideas with live-market fidelity.

You will tackle distributed compute, large-scale data, and performance challenges, improving speed and realism of simulations and expanding the number of ideas that