Senior Research Engineer

Flow Traders is looking for a Senior Research Engineer to join us in our New York office. This is a unique opportunity to join a leading proprietary trading firm with an entrepreneurial and innovative culture at the heart of its business. We value quick-witted, creative minds and challenge them to make full use of their capacities.

As a Senior Research Engineer, you will be responsible for helping to lead the development of our trading model research framework and its integration with our platform for deploying / running those models in production. You'll be responsible for expanding the current (limited) scope of the framework and platform to become the global standard way of training, consuming, combining, and transforming any data source in a data-driven systematic way.

What you will do

• Lead the development and global rollout of our research framework for defining and training models through various optimization procedures (supervised learning, backtesting etc.), as well as its integration with our platform for deploying and running those models in production
• Develop tools / frameworks for use by our Quantitative Researchers and Traders to test hypotheses and tune / develop data-driven systematic trading strategies
• Work with the business to refine requirements, collect feedback, and iterate on design and implementation of research tools

What you need to succeed

At Flow Traders, we acknowledge the importance of open and transparent communication whether it be with our employees, our stakeholders, or our local and global communities. When it comes to salary, Flow Traders uses reliable market research to create base ranges. Where candidates will fall within the range depends on a few different factors including but not limited to level of experience, location, and specific skill set. We also consider ourselves one global team, and to demonstrate that, all employees are eligible to share in the company's success through an annual discretionary variable remuneration allocated based on company, group and individual performance and contribution.

Per NYC salary transparency law, the total compensation for this role includes a base of $185,000-$210,000 plus annual discretionary variable remuneration.

Flow Traders does not accept unsolicited resumes from any professional staffing or search firms. All resumes, and any other information identifying potential candidates, submitted to any employee at Flow Traders via-email, the Internet or directly without a valid and signed search agreement will be deemed free to contact by Flow Traders without any restrictions and no placement fee of any kind will be paid in the event the candidate is hired by Flow Traders.