Proprietary Trading

Senior Research Engineer

at Flow Traders

Tech LeadVisa sponsorship availableData Science/AI/ML

Posted 19 hours ago

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Compensation: Not specified
City: London
Country: United Kingdom

Flow Traders is hiring a Senior Research Engineer in London to help lead the development and global rollout of their trading-model research framework and integrate it with production systems. You will expand the framework to standardise training, consumption, combination, and transformation of data, and collaborate closely with Quantitative Researchers to test hypotheses and develop deployable trading models. The role involves designing and implementing end-to-end ML pipelines, MLOps and production deployment, plus monitoring and observability. Strong Python and ML library experience (numpy, PyTorch, pandas, polars, ray), cloud/container knowledge, and a solid maths/statistics background are required.

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Senior Research Engineer

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Flow Traders is looking for a Senior Research Engineer to join us in our London 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 using it to conduct research to develop models for trading in production. You'll expand the framework to become global standard way of training, consuming, combining, and transforming any data source in a data-driven systematic way. You will then partner with Quantitative Researchers to build the trading models themselves.

What you will do

Help to 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
Partner with Quantitative Researchers to conduct research: test hypotheses and tune/develop data-driven systematic trading strategies and alpha signals

What you need to succeed

Advanced degree (Master's or PhD) in Machine Learning, Statistics, Physics, Computer Science or similar
8+ years of hands-on experience MLOps, Research Engineering, or ML Research
A strong background in mathematics and statistics
Strong proficiency in programming languages such as Python, with experience in libraries like numpy, pytorch, polars, pandas, and ray
Demonstrated experience in designing and implementing end-to-end machine learning pipelines, including data preprocessing, model training, deployment, and monitoring
Understanding of and experience with modern software development practices and tools (e.g. Agile, version control, automated testing, CI/CD, observability)
Understanding of cloud platforms (e. g., AWS, Azure, GCP) and containerization technologies (e. g., Docker, Kubernetes)

Please note that we do not offer sponsorship for our London office.

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.

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