Platinum & Partners is retained by a top-tier global hedge fund to identify a Quantitative Developer for an existing, high-performing quantitative trading pod in New York. This is a hands-on, entrepreneurial role sitting at the intersection of technology, data, research and trading — with direct exposure to the Senior Portfolio Manager and quantitative researchers from day one.
The role spans the full systematic trading stack, with particular focus on research infrastructure, data systems, signal deployment and production monitoring. If you want to own something real, work closely with the people whose research you are enabling, and see your engineering directly influence live trading — this is the seat.
THE ROLE
- Own and continuously improve the team's research platform — backtesting framework, simulation environments and caching/compute layers
- Build and maintain tooling that enables researchers to develop, test and deploy signals efficiently
- Design, organise and maintain large-scale datasets and data pipelines used across research and production
- Productionise and monitor trading signals — ensuring robustness, observability and operational reliability
- Optimise the team's interfaces with central and external systems including execution, risk monitoring and compute/resource management
- Integrate agentic AI workflows where they can meaningfully improve productivity, model development or operational robustness
- Partner closely with researchers and the SPM to translate research needs into scalable engineering solutions
WHAT THEY ARE LOOKING FOR
- 3+ years as a quantitative developer, research engineer or software/data engineer — ideally in a systematic trading or financial context
- Strong Python engineering: clean, scalable, production-quality code; experience with performance optimisation and parallel/distributed workloads
- Familiarity with distributed compute and orchestration tools — Kubernetes, Ray, Dask, Polars, Slurm or similar
- Strong Linux experience
- SQL proficiency; familiarity with modern data warehouses such as Snowflake is a plus
- Solid understanding of system design, design patterns and data architecture
- Experience building or supporting research platforms, simulation frameworks or quantitative data infrastructure
- Experience supporting deployment, monitoring and maintenance of live research outputs or trading models
- Comfortable working in a fast-paced, iterative environment alongside researchers — you translate what they need into engineering reality
WHY THIS ROLE
- A top-tier global hedge fund with the infrastructure, data and capital to work on genuinely hard quantitative engineering problems
- Direct partnership with the SPM and research team — you are not a back-office function, you are embedded in the investment process
- Full ownership of the research platform and data infrastructure — real engineering responsibility, not ticket-driven maintenance
- Agentic AI integration is part of the brief — a forward-thinking team that moves with the technology
- Base $150,000–$200,000 with discretionary performance bonus reflecting the firm's Tier 1 position — total compensation is significantly above the base range
- New York City — in the room with the people whose work your systems power
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