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Senior Research Engineer

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London, Greater London, England, GBR
Senior level
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London, Greater London, England, GBR
Senior level
Lead development and global rollout of a machine learning research framework for training, evaluating, combining, and deploying trading models. Partner with quantitative researchers to test hypotheses, develop systematic trading strategies, and create alpha signals. Build end-to-end machine learning pipelines covering data preprocessing, model training, production deployment, and monitoring while applying modern software engineering, cloud, containerization, and MLOps practices.
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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)

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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Broadgate Tower 20 Primrose Street, 12th Floor, London, United Kingdom, EC2A 2EW

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