Flow Traders is looking for a Senior Research Engineer, successful candidate will be relocated to our Hong Kong 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
- 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)
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.
Skills Required
- Advanced degree (Master's or PhD) in Machine Learning, Statistics, Physics, Computer Science or similar
- 8+ years of hands-on experience in MLOps, Research Engineering, or ML Research
- Strong background in mathematics and statistics
- Strong proficiency in Python
- Experience with libraries: numpy, pytorch, polars, pandas, ray
- Experience designing and implementing end-to-end ML pipelines (data preprocessing, model training, deployment, monitoring)
- Experience with modern software development practices and tools (version control, automated testing, CI/CD, observability)
- Understanding of cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) and containerization technologies (Docker, Kubernetes)
What We Do
Since 2004, Flow Traders has been a principal trading firm and one of the world’s largest liquidity providers, specialised in Exchange Traded Products (ETPs). Our headquarters in Amsterdam and offices in New York, Singapore, Hong Kong, Milan and Cluj accommodate more than 500 employees. Throughout the years, Flow Traders has received the industry’s recognition, winning numerous awards and has been listed as a company since 2015. Our non-hierarchical approach stimulates innovation and development. We value creative minds and out-of-the-box thinkers and challenge them to make full use of their capacities. Our demanding, high-paced environment continuously puts us to the test. Flow Traders fosters a strong team-oriented culture which rewards people for their contributions to the company as a whole rather than only in their direct area of responsibility. At Flow Traders, we focus on professional and personal development; we encourage our people to be the best at anything they do by offering the right training. On top of that, we have our private gym where our health coaches provide our people with the right personal sports programs. We invest in our hard working people, because they hold the key to our success.
