Quant Developer - Research Engineering
CTC Lateral8 hours ago
Base Salary
$175k - $225k/yr
Responsibilities
- Partner with quantitative researchers and traders to translate research questions into data, tooling, and compute solutions.
- Build, operate, and optimize research and backtesting pipelines and execution frameworks.
- Productionize research prototypes with reliable, reproducible, and observable systems.
- Own shared foundational datasets and ensure their quality and timeliness.
- Profile and optimize performance-critical numerical code while balancing runtime, compute, and storage costs.
- Migrate research pipelines to modern data platforms and improve subsequent migration processes.
- Build evaluation tooling for assessing model performance.
- Collaborate across the data and technology organization to improve shared research infrastructure.
Requirements
- Strong production-level Python skills, including NumPy, pandas, vectorization, and profiling.
- Working proficiency in C++.
- Strong quantitative foundations in statistics, probability, regression, and time series.
- Strong software design skills and hands-on experience building and operating data pipelines at scale.
- Ability to work directly with quants and traders and turn ambiguous research needs into concrete designs.
- Preferred experience in options trading, market making, another trading environment, backtesting, simulation, or research-platform infrastructure.
- Preferred hands-on experience with a major cloud provider or HPC managers.
- Preferred experience with Apache Iceberg, high-volume market data capture, or C++ template metaprogramming.
Benefits
- Generous time off, insurance coverage, paid parental leave, free breakfast and lunch with healthy snacks, wellness reimbursement, and other employee benefits.
- Most teams follow a hybrid workplace model, subject to change based on business need.
- Eligible for an annual discretionary bonus.
- Interns and contractors are not eligible for benefits.
About CTC Lateral
Chicago Trading Company (CTC) is a proprietary trading firm specializing in options market making and other derivatives across global exchanges. It trades its own capital, combining quantitative research, systematic strategies, and in-house trading technology to provide liquidity and price discovery. Founded in 1995 and headquartered in Chicago, the privately held firm operates in multiple asset classes and supports research and trading with extensive market and reference data platforms.