Senior Research Engineer

Flow Traders is looking for a Senior Research Engineer to join 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)

What We Offer

We like to think that talent grows at Flow and stays at Flow. To ensure this, we provide our employees with an extensive onboarding program, access to Flow Academy, the best working environment, the latest technology and continuous support. We go out of our way to retain the small business feeling with which we started and stimulate innovation and collaboration through teamwork and our non-hierarchical approach. We offer competitive salary, annual discretionary bonus and other fantastic perks and benefits, such as:

• Flow Academy for continuous learning and opportunities to attend domain-related conferences
• Comprehensive health insurance coverage
• In-house lounge with a bar, pool table and console games
• Daily catered breakfast and lunch with healthy snacks and drinks available throughout the day
• In-house hairdresser and massage therapist
• Personal trainers, weekly boot camps and a subsidized gym membership
• Annual company trip and a variety of events throughout the year
• Global rotations between our offices worldwide
• and more!

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.