Platinum & Partners is retained by a top-tier global hedge fund to identify a Quantitative Developer to build next-generation AI-enabled research and trading workflows. This is one of the most forward-looking engineering briefs in quantitative finance right now — bridging frontier LLM and agentic AI techniques with systematic trading research, alpha generation, portfolio analytics and production trading systems.
The firm is moving quickly and wants someone who can start as soon as possible.
THE ROLE
- Design and build AI-enabled research and trading workflows — applying frontier LLM and agentic techniques directly to systematic investment processes
- Bridge the gap between cutting-edge AI tooling and production-grade trading infrastructure — making research faster, more scalable and more reliable
- Partner directly with quantitative researchers and portfolio managers to translate complex investment processes into robust, production-quality tools
- Build and maintain data pipelines, APIs, automation workflows and distributed systems that underpin the team's research and trading operations
- Apply AI to high-value use cases: research automation, trade thesis extraction, signal generation, news monitoring, backtest reporting and alpha research workflows
- Ensure observability, reliability and operational robustness across AI-powered systems in a live trading environment
WHAT THEY ARE LOOKING FOR
- Strong Python and computer science fundamentals — clean, scalable, production-quality code is non-negotiable
- 3+ years of experience across ML engineering, database engineering or research engineering — with a track record of building scalable research tools, data pipelines or distributed systems
- Practical, hands-on experience with LLM applications and agentic workflows: RAG, vector databases, structured outputs, tool use, model evaluation, prompt engineering, fine-tuning and workflow observability
- Experience applying AI to research or trading contexts — automation, signal generation, alpha research, backtest reporting or similar — is highly valuable
- Comfortable working directly alongside researchers and portfolio managers — you translate what they need into engineering reality
- A builder's mindset: you are not looking for a role where someone else has already defined the problem
WHY THIS ROLE
- One of the most genuinely novel engineering mandates in quantitative finance — applying frontier AI to systematic trading at a Tier 1 fund
- Direct collaboration with researchers and portfolio managers — embedded in the investment process, not supporting it from a distance
- A top-tier global hedge fund with the infrastructure, data and capital to work on hard problems at scale
- The agentic AI space is moving fast and this team is moving with it — you will be at the frontier, not following it
- New York City — in the room with the people whose work your systems enable
- Highly competitive total compensation reflecting the seniority and scarcity of this profile
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