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

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.

Role

Senior Research Engineer (Based in Hong Kong)

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