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Quantitative Developer - World Leading Hedge Fund (New York)
Basic Salary: $450k - $1.6 million dependant on experience.
Permanent | Full Relocation | 5 Days per Week On-Site
One of the world's leading hedge funds, headquartered in New York, is undergoing significant expansion within its equities technology and research division. The firm is seeking exceptional Quantitative Developers to build the research platforms, tooling, and infrastructure that power both fundamental and fully systematic trading strategies
The Opportunity
As a Quantitative Developer, you will sit at the heart of a high-impact, high-ownership technical environment, partnering directly with quantitative researchers, portfolio managers, and traders. You will design and deliver the systems that take ideas from prototype to production, often within days rather than weeks.
This group operates with flat structure, startup-like agility, and immediate business visibility. Engineers here regularly see their tools influence billions in capital allocation across multiple strategies
What you'll work on
- Building research frameworks, simulation environments, and signal production pipelines.
- Developing portfolio construction, risk analytics, execution research, and optimization tooling.
- Scaling distributed compute, data workflows, and production research infrastructure.
- Partnering directly with researchers to turn novel ideas into production-ready systems.
Experience required
- Deep programming ability in Python and/or C with strong systems or research-adjacent engineering experience.
- Strong academic background in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or similar (3.5 GPA preferred)
- Evidence of high trajectory: ownership, technical depth, strong communication, and commercial awareness
- Experience in high-performance engineering, data-intensive systems, or quant-aligned tooling is highly valued
- Candidates from top tech, unicorn startups, or quant trading environments are particularly relevant
Why else could you be interested?
- Very strong compensation with significant bonus potential.
- Full relocation support for candidates moving to NYC.
- Work alongside world-class engineers, researchers, and PMs, the top 0.01% in the industry
- High-impact, high-visibility engineering: small teams, greenfield work, and immediate production influence.
- Ultra-fast iteration cycles, ideas and tools deployed in days, not months.
Get in touch by sending in your resume if interested
Xpertise are acting as a Staffing Agency on behalf of their client
Salary : $400,000 - $1,600,000