VP, Quant Research & Portfolio Engineering

AQR; Greenwich (CT); On-site; USD 160,000 - 190,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Paid time off

Medical/dental/vision insurance

401(k)

Job summary

AQR Capital Management in Greenwich, CT is seeking a Software Engineer for the Global Stock Selection QRD group. You will build and extend scalable AWS-based infrastructure, data ingestion, model computation, and ML/NLP pipelines to support research and portfolio construction.

The role requires 7 years of software engineering experience, deep cloud knowledge, and strong collaboration across disciplines. You will design production-scale systems with emphasis on reliability, observability, and

Qualifications

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in CS, Engineering or Math.
• 7+ years of professional software engineering experience.
• Experience building cloud-native apps on AWS.
• Experience with large-scale data processing pipelines.
• Production-scale AI/ML applications with reliability.
• Strong architectural, observability and operational skills.

Responsibilities

• Develop scalable, AWS-based storage and computing infra.
• Extend generalized research platform.
• Ingest and validate data pipelines.
• Implement model computation and signal generation.
• Develop ML/NLP pipelines for production use.

Skills

Python

C

Linux

SQL

Data pipelines

AWS

Education

Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics

Tools

AWS

Spark

Kubernetes

SQL databases

Job description

AQR Capital Management in Greenwich, CT is seeking a Software Engineer for the Global Stock Selection QRD group. You will build and extend scalable AWS-based infrastructure, data ingestion, model computation, and ML/NLP pipelines to support research and portfolio construction.

The role requires 7 years of software engineering experience, deep cloud knowledge, and strong collaboration across disciplines. You will design production-scale systems with emphasis on reliability, observability, and