Research Engineer

As a Research Engineer, you will play a pivotal role in building scalable research platforms to be used across multiple asset classes and trading strategies. You’ll collaborate with quantitative traders and researchers to evaluate and implement new research ideas and approaches across the organization. Your work will influence our trading strategies by accelerating experimentation cycles that foster continuous innovation and refinement.

Your Core Responsibilities: 

• Develop high-throughput, scalable research platforms, with a focus on the interaction between data, ML pipelines and back testing
• Guide tooling to facilitate unconstrained experimentation at a large scale; generalize tooling across asset classes, horizons and trading strategies
• Collaborate with quantitative researchers and traders to investigate and evaluate research ideas and to develop scientific libraries to share findings
• Evaluate and roll out third-party tooling (e.g., MLflow; Neptune; Ray); lead implementation and optimization of our research tools
• Create efficient processes for reproducible research
• Design scalable model frameworks capable of handling high-volume trading data and delivering real-time, high-accuracy predictions

Your Skills & Experience: 

• 5+ years of experience in designing research platforms in trading environments
• Previous experience working with ML methodologies and frameworks such as LLMs, Deep Learning, Neural Networks, etc.
• Software development experience in C++ or Java + proficiency in Python
• Knowledge of machine learning frameworks such as PyTorch, TensorFlow, or JAX
• Hands-on experience with ML pipelines in high-performance (real-time, low latency) environments is a strong plus

The Base Salary range for the role is included below. Base salary is only one component of total compensation; all full-time, permanent positions are eligible for a discretionary bonus and benefits, including paid leave and insurance. Please visit Benefits - US | IMC Trading for more comprehensive information.

Salary Range$175,000—$250,000 USD

About Us

IMC is a global trading firm powered by a cutting-edge research environment and a world-class technology backbone. Since 1989, we’ve been a stabilizing force in financial markets, providing essential liquidity upon which market participants depend. Across our offices in the US, Europe, Asia Pacific, and India, our talented quant researchers, engineers, traders, and business operations professionals are united by our uniquely collaborative, high-performance culture, and our commitment to giving back. From entering dynamic new markets to embracing disruptive technologies, and from developing an innovative research environment to diversifying our trading strategies, we dare to continuously innovate and collaborate to succeed.