OfficeAmsterdam; Chicago; London; New York

Research Developer Job Description for Headlands Tech

Locations: Amsterdam; Chicago; London; New York

Scope:

As a Research Developer at Headlands Tech, you'll join a team of quantitative researchers responsible for the firm's portfolio of automated electronic trading strategies. You'll research and develop predictive signals and trading models, iterating to drive measurable improvements in strategy PnL. Working closely with colleagues, you'll own ideas from hypothesis through production and be responsible for the results they generate.

Qualifications:

  • Low ego; effective both collaboratively and autonomously
  • Highly motivated and ambitious, with a focus on results
  • Experience or demonstrable interest in systematic trading
  • A track record of applying statistics and machine learning to noisy real-world data
  • Solid software development skills, with practical experience in Java, C++, or Python
  • A drive to turn research into profitable, scalable, and maintainable trading strategies

New grads should apply via the separate New Grad posting.

We are proud to be an equal opportunity workplace and to provide employees with a work environment free of discrimination and harassment. All employment decisions at Headlands Tech are based on business needs, job requirements and individual qualifications, without regard to race, color, religion or belief, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity/expression, age, status as a protected veteran, status as an individual with a disability, or any other applicable legally protected characteristics. Headlands Tech will not tolerate discrimination or harassment based on any of these characteristics.

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Headlands Technologies LLC is a global quantitative trading company based in Chicago, New York, Austin, London, Amsterdam and Singapore. Founded in July 2009, Headlands Technologies develops and implements quantitative trading strategies in exchange-traded financial products, such as equities and other securities. Headlands Technologies is a privately funded company and does not accept outside investors.

Employees
174
Industry
Financial Services
Headquarters
Chicago, Illinois
Founded
2009

Key team members

Serguei Popov

Serguei Popov

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