Senior Research Engineer
- Level
- Senior
Not stated in the posting: salary, work type, visa.
Open. First seen 2 October 2026.
About the role
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's standard text
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What this role asks for
Standard for software engineering roles
Python
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80% of this description is written for the role. The rest is Flow Traders's standard text, folded away below.
Read against Flow Traders's other open postings on this site.
The team: Product Development
This role is one of 16 open in Product Development.
WHAT THE TEAM WORKS WITH, ACROSS ITS POSTINGS
C++ (10 of 16), Python (9 of 16), Rust (5 of 16), TypeScript (5 of 16), WebSockets (5 of 16), Docker (4 of 16), Kubernetes (4 of 16)
OTHER ROLES ON THIS TEAM
- Senior Software Engineer, C++ (Market Data) posted Sep 18
- Engineering Manager posted Sep 16
- Software Engineer (Trading Automation) posted Aug 12
- Senior Software Engineer, C++ posted Jul 9
- Senior Software Engineer, C++ posted Jul 9
- Senior Software Engineer, C++ (Market Data) posted Jul 9
- Senior Software Engineer, C++ (Market Data) posted Jul 9
- Engineering Manager posted Jul 1
- Senior Software Engineer, C++ , Core Platform posted Jun 25
- Senior Software Engineer, C++ posted Jun 25
- Senior Software Engineer, C++ posted Jun 24
- Senior Software Engineer, C++ , Core Platform posted Jun 12
- Senior Research Engineer posted Mar 2
- Python Engineer, Trading Automation posted Jul 18
- Senior Software Engineer, C++ posted Jun 26
From the team and dates on Flow Traders's own job board.
Salary context
6 other open postings titled Senior Research Engineer state a salary: median USD 212,500 to USD 330,000 a year.
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