Senior Research Engineer
Flow Traders · 🇬🇧 London, United Kingdom
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- Backend
- Last verified
- 2026-10-25
- First indexed
- 2026-10-25
- Posted date
- 2026-03-02
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Role Description (Excerpt)
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 • 5+ years of hands-on experience MLOps, Research Engineering, or ML Research • A strong background in mathematics…
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