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The role involves the development and maintenance of sophisticated tools for alpha research along with the production systems used in feature engineering, portfolio construction, and trade execution.\nThe ideal candidate should be an expert engineer with a deep theoretical foundation, extensive systems design experience, and significant expertise in both high-level and systems programming languages (we primarily use Python and C++) and should be motivated by the idea of playing a pivotal part in a high-impact, technology-driven business. Besides strong technical skills, we value exceptional attention to detail, a strong intuition for the pragmatism-robustness tradeoff and, most importantly, someone who works well in a close-knit, start-up-style team.\nLocation\nLondon\nPrincipal Responsibilities\nDevelop sophisticated research tooling to enable and accelerate alpha discovery.\nDevelop real-time event-driven systems for signal computation, trade-decision-making and execution.\nDesign, implement, and maintain the core systems and services to enable real time data ingestion, retrieval and distributed compute for both research and production.\nOversee the ongoing operation of all components within the systems landscape to ensure resilience and detect defects as they arise.\nPreferred Technical Skills\nExceptional programming skills in both high-level and low-level languages (Python & C++ or similar).\nFamiliarity with modern distributed computing platforms (specifically: docker, kubernetes, ceph, mongodb & kafka).\nTheoretical proficiency in numerical computing, online algorithms, data structures, networking, databases, and operating systems.\nFamiliarity with typical quantitative research toolchains including Numpy, Polars, Scikitlearn, Pytorch, etc.\nDevOps: version control, testing frameworks, release processes, build systems.\nExcellent communication, problem-solving, and analytical skills.\nPreferred Experience\nExtremely strong computer science or engineering background with 5+ years of experience.\nExperience designing and implementing:\nDistributed Systems.\nReal-time event-driven systems.\nLarge-scale time series data ingress, storage and processing.\nExperience with the architectural design of large-scale software systems.\nExperience with systematic futures trading.\nExposure to CICD-style implementation/release methodologies with a large complex codebase.\nMaster’s or PhD in Computer Science, Physics, Engineering, Statistics, Applied Mathematics, or related technical field.\nAdditional Relevant Experience\nPrior role as a quantitative developer supporting a multi-asset systematic trading business.\nExperience with a broad spectrum of finance-relevant data sources (e.g. tick data, fundamental data and alternative data).\nFunctional understanding of foundational trading & risk management concepts.\nTarget Start Date\nAs soon as possible","description_format":"text","description_chars":3313,"description_truncated":false,"requirements":{"experience_years_min":5,"management_years_min":null,"team_size_min":null,"manages_managers":false,"education":{"level":"master","optional":false},"security_clearance":false,"languages":[]},"benefits":[],"hiring_locations":[],"hiring_excludes":[],"relocation_offered":false,"industries":["Hedge Funds & Alternative Investments"],"lifecycle":[{"event":"open","at":"2026-09-26T07:37:06Z"}],"liveness":{"score":10,"band":"cold","label":"Long shot","p_open":1,"p_active":0.29,"p_room":0.36,"age_days":52,"expected_fill_days":30,"reasons":["conf:13","stale_co","velocity","win:tail","crowd:brand"],"computed_at":"2026-09-28T05:45:00Z"},"pay":null,"html_url":"https://alion.io/job/millennium-management-senior-quantitative-engineer-systematic-cross-commodity","json_url":"https://alion.io/job/millennium-management-senior-quantitative-engineer-systematic-cross-commodity.json","meta":{"generated_at":"2026-09-28T22:32:37Z","cache_seconds":300,"methodology":"https://alion.io/methodology","terms":"https://alion.io/terms","contact":"https://alion.io/contact","api":"https://alion.io/developers","usage":{"tier":"crawler","counted_by":"address","units_charged":1,"used_today":288,"day_limit":5000,"remaining_today":4712,"minute_limit":60,"resets_at":"2026-09-29T00:00:00Z"}}}