Research Engineer

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.  

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.

Responsibilities:  Deliver custom software solutions including investigating novel research ideas and evaluating with large-scale experiments; develop scientific libraries to share the finding and processes; build tools and engines to bring platforms and models to live trading.

Requirements: 

• Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science or related field
• 3 years of related experience
• Any amount of experience designing system for machine learning model training and deployment
• Any amount of experience implementing data engineering pipelines using ETL techniques to produce features and inputs for model inference
• Any amount of experience developing market access controls for real-time equities trading system using C++
• Any amount of experience designing and implementing market simulation software for algorithmic trading strategies

Must be in office 4 days per week.  May work remotely on Friday.

Salary range $245,000 to $255,000 per year

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 Capital 

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. 

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.