Research Engineer
Company
Aquatic Capital Management
Location
Chicago, IL
Type
Full Time
Job Description
Aquatic is a quantitative trading and investment company recently launched by Jon Graham. Prior to founding Aquatic, Jon was a Partner and Senior Managing Director at Citadel, where he worked for more than 13 years. At Citadel, Jon held numerous senior positions over the years, including head of Statistical Arbitrage and Equity High Frequency, culminating in leading the highly successful Global Quantitative Strategies business. Â
Aquatic develops systematic investment strategies, enabled by a leading-edge research and development platform. The vision is simple: to build a world class, quantitative trading company with a collaborative team of highly capable researchers and engineers.
Research Engineer
Chicago
Responsibilities: Â Develop software for researchers using Python and C++; investigate novel research ideas and evaluate them with large-scale experiments; develop scientific libraries to share findings and processes; build tools and engines that bring platforms and models to live trading; originate, test and develop research projects and processes.
Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree in Software Engineering or related field
- 1 year of related experience
- Any amount of experience developing low-latency distributed software systems for computing real-time financial data
- Any amount of experience developing software and tooling for training and evaluating machine learning models
- Any amount of experience optimizing CPU usage and memory footprint of software using profiling techniques
- Any amount of experience developing user facing software tools to analyze and manipulate datasets and data streams
Must live within normal commuting distance of worksite. Must be in office 4 days per week. May work remotely on Fridays.
Benefits:
- Benefits: Fully paid medical, dental, and vision for employees and dependents, competitive 401k plan, employer-paid life & disability insurance
- Perks: Wellness programs, casual dress, snacks, lunch, game room, team and company events
- Development: Open environment to maximize learning and knowledge sharing
- Time: Generous PTO, paid holidays, competitive paid caregiver leaves
Aquatic CapitalÂ
This role represents a unique opportunity to join a quantitative investment manager at the foundational level of building a world class operation from scratch. The firm’s culture will be shaped by collaboration, meritocracy, ambition, and calm determination.Â
Aquatic is a proud equal opportunity workplace. We do not discriminate based upon race, religion, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or any other applicable legally protected characteristics.
Date Posted
10/01/2024
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