Platinum & Partners is retained by a top-tier global hedge fund to identify a Quantitative Developer for a small, highly collaborative systematic investment team in New York. This team operates across multiple asset classes and regions, with a strong focus on machine learning techniques applied to fully systematic portfolio trading.
This is a pure engineering seat inside a high-performance quantitative environment — you will be building the critical infrastructure that the team's trading and research depends on. The firm is moving quickly and is looking for someone who can start as soon as possible.
THE ROLE
- Partner closely with quantitative researchers to develop innovative tools for low-latency systematic trading
- Implement and operate systems enabling large-scale quantitative research — high-throughput computation, distributed processing and performance-critical infrastructure
- Stay current on state-of-the-art technologies: HPC, low-latency systems, parallel processing, technical libraries and computing environments
- Collaborate directly with the Senior Portfolio Manager and trading group across the full investment process — this is a transparent, team-first environment
WHAT THEY ARE LOOKING FOR
- Expert-level C++ — this is the primary requirement and the lens through which every application will be assessed
- Degree in Computer Science, Physics, Engineering, Statistics, Applied Mathematics or a related computational field
- 4–6 years of software engineering experience; financial experience is explicitly not required
- Experience with HPC, distributed computing and parallel processing techniques is strongly preferred
Particularly valued:
- Programming competition background — ACM-ICPC, IOI, TopCoder, Kaggle or equivalent
- High-quality public code on GitHub
- Contributions to notable open-source projects
WHY THIS ROLE
- A top-tier global hedge fund with the infrastructure, capital and intellectual ambition to work on genuinely hard engineering problems
- Small, entrepreneurial team — you will have real ownership and direct impact on trading performance, not be one of many developers in a large function
- No financial background required — the firm hires on engineering excellence and will bring you up to speed on the trading context
- Fast-moving, collaborative environment with excellent opportunities for career growth
- New York City — in the room with the researchers and portfolio managers whose work your systems enable
ABOUT PLATINUM & PARTNERS
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