Research Engineer

The role

The Research Engineer will partner with quantitative researchers to build scalable infrastructure for alpha, signal, and portfolio construction. You will incorporate advancements in machine learning, hardware accelerators, and high-performance computing to optimize research workflows.

What you will do

• Partner with the research team to build highly scalable infrastructure for alpha, signal, and portfolio construction.
• Incorporate advancements in machine learning, hardware accelerators and high-performance computing to optimize research workflows.
• Maintain, develop, and re-imagine the internal research stack.
• Optimize models for inference and use in real time trading systems.

Required qualifications

• Experience with building infrastructure for training /fine-tuning large ML models.
• Intellectual curiosity and a strong interest in solving difficult problems.
• Exceptional programming skills and proficiency in identifying performance bottlenecks.
• Experience with the python scientific stack and DL libraries (PyTorch, Tensorflow, etc.)
• Experience with hardware accelerators.

About the company

PDT Partners has a 30+ year track record and a reputation for excellence. Their goal is to be the best quantitative investment manager in the world.