Senior Research Engineer

Flow Traders

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Hong Kong Until 8/22/2026 First posted December 1, 2025 Last posted March 17, 2026
Job description

Flow Traders is looking for a Senior Research Engineer to join our Hong Kong 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
  • 8+ years of hands-on experience MLOps, Research Engineering, or ML Research
  • A strong background in mathematics and statistics
  • Strong proficiency in programming languages such as Python, with experience in libraries like numpy, pytorch, polars, pandas, and ray.
  • Demonstrated experience in designing and implementing end-to-end machine learning pipelines, including data preprocessing, model training, deployment, and monitoring
  • Understanding of and experience with modern software development practices and tools (e.g. Agile, version control, automated testing, CI/CD, observability)
  • Understanding of cloud platforms (e. g., AWS, Azure, GCP) and containerization technologies (e. g., Docker, Kubernetes)

Flow Traders does not accept unsolicited resumes from any professional staffing or search firms. All resumes, and any other information identifying potential candidates, submitted to any employee at Flow Traders via-email, the Internet or directly without a valid and signed search agreement will be deemed free to contact by Flow Traders without any restrictions and no placement fee of any kind will be paid in the event the candidate is hired by Flow Traders.

 

About this role

Summary

Develop and implement data-driven trading models and research frameworks in a financial trading environment

Job title

Senior Research Engineer

Experience level

8+ years

Industry

finance

Location requirements

Hong Kong, remote work not specified

Salary

Not specified

Management role

No

Skills & keywords

Required skills

pythonnumpypytorchcloud platformsdockerkubernetesml pipelinesstatistics

Preferred skills

agileversion controlautomated testingci/cdobservability

Specializations

machine learningdata sciencequantitative researchml pipelines
Locations

Structured locations inferred from the posting.

Hong Kong

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