Quantitative Developer

Responsibilities

• Write clean, maintainable code and contribute to engineering best practices, including CI/CD pipelines and version control.
• Build, deploy, and maintain internal tools and dashboards that surface quantitative outputs, portfolio analytics, and market data.
• Implement and operate AI capabilities tailored to the Fundamental Equity business, including LLM APIs, MCP servers, and agentic workflows.
• Partner with quant researchers to transition analytical prototypes into reliable, production-ready applications.
• Identify opportunities to use AI tooling to remove friction and improve output quality within the investment process.

Requirements

• 2–5 years of experience in quantitative development, analytics engineering, or a similar role at a financial institution or data provider.
• Strong proficiency in Python and solid SQL skills (relational and/or time-series databases).
• Hands-on experience with AI/LLM integration, including API usage, prompt engineering, and retrieval-augmented workflows.
• Proven track record of building production-ready dashboards or UIs used by professional users.
• Solid software engineering fundamentals, including version control, structured codebases, and testing.
• Practical familiarity with agentic frameworks, MCP servers, or multi-model orchestration.
• A product-minded approach with the ability to take ownership of projects from scoping to maintenance.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with alternative data ingestion or vendor API integrations.
• Prior experience working within a hedge fund or multi-manager platform.
• Proficiency with AWS (EC2, containerized workloads) and Infrastructure as Code (Terraform).
• Experience with Docker, Kubernetes, and workflow orchestration tools like Prefect or Airflow.

About the Company

Schonfeld is a global multi-manager hedge fund that strives to deliver industry-leading risk-adjusted returns for our investors. We leverage both internal and external portfolio manager teams around the world, seeking to capitalize on inefficiencies and opportunities within the markets. We invest across four main strategies: Quant, Tactical, Fundamental Equity, and Discretionary Macro & Fixed Income.