Quantitative Researcher
LB228
Posted: 20/10/2026
- $250,000 - $350,000
- Redwood City, CA
- Permanent
Quantitative Researcher — Low-Latency Systems & Trading
💡 What if your next role let you build trading systems where C++, Rust and operating-system performance directly determine how quickly trades execute — with trading decisions happening on a single chip?
🚀 Our client — an early-stage trading technology startup founded by engineers from elite quantitative trading firms — is hiring a Quantitative Researcher / Systems Engineer.
They're building an entirely new exchange architecture, combining ultra-low-latency trading, performance-critical software and custom hardware to eliminate traditional network bottlenecks.
The role:
✅ Build and optimise performance-critical production systems using C++ and Rust
✅ Work on low-level systems programming across memory, concurrency, networking and OS interactions
✅ Develop research infrastructure for short-horizon trading strategies and predictive models
✅ Optimise systems for extreme latency, throughput and computational constraints
✅ Own research and engineering workflows from development through production deployment
✅ Collaborate with hardware engineers to push trading performance beyond traditional software limits
Why join?
⚡ Work on cutting-edge low-latency systems where microseconds matter
🧠 Join a highly technical founding team with backgrounds in elite quantitative trading and hardware engineering
⚙️ Work across C++, Rust, operating systems, quantitative research and hardware/software co-design
🚀 Join at an early stage with significant technical ownership
💻 Build greenfield infrastructure rather than maintaining legacy trading systems
📈 Help develop an entirely new approach to electronic trading and exchange infrastructure
A traditional quantitative research background isn't essential. We're particularly interested in exceptional C++ / Rust systems engineers who have built performance-critical production software and understand OS fundamentals.
📩 Interested? Apply now!
Requirements added by the job poster
• 1+ years of work experience with C++
• Doctor of Philosophy
Jack Smith
Researcher