AQR's Quantitative Research Development (QRD) team is seeking a software engineer to support the Specialized Investments Group (SIG) by enabling and scaling SIG's investment efforts through engineering support, data infrastructure, and platform enhancements, particularly for tax-aware products.
Requirements
- 5+ years of experience as a programmer with expertise in Python, NumPy and Pandas or similar quantitative stack.
- Experience with SQL (SQL Server & Postgres preferred) is required.
- An understanding of AI and agentic frameworks, especially as it relates to engineering productivity and capability.
- Ability to design elegant solutions and the ability to translate design into high quality code.
- Mastery of design patterns and object-oriented programming techniques
- Strong understanding of best practices for large scale application design, SOA, microservices, distributed compute, containers, and use of the cloud.
Responsibilities
- build or extend our: Data and services platforms, optimization, and orchestration and validation engines
- SIG Tools, data and API infrastructure incorporating millions of data points
- Intuitive research APIs leveraging cloud computing and cutting-edge visualizations
- High-performance historical simulation/back testing engine for vetting new product launches
- Bespoke technology solutions that satisfy the needs of specific asset classes and research needs
- Machine Learning and AI-Driven application development.
Other
- This role will require you to be in the office 2-3 days per week
- Strong attention to detail, passion for careful testing
- Excellent communication skills and ability to work with global team members
- Ability to work with your business colleagues and collaborate on solutions and coordinate work across the team.
- Understanding or experience in (quant) finance a large plus
