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The company applies a scientific approach to investing, combining cutting-edge technology, artificial intelligence, data science, and quantitative research with rigorous human inquiry to capitalize on market opportunities and deliver alpha for investors.\nOur team of engineers, quantitative researchers and data scientists looks beyond the traditional to test hypotheses and develop creative solutions to some of the world's most complex economic problems.\nIn Fast Engineering, we are building the next-generation user-friendly framework supporting low-latency and resource-intensive feature construction, alpha generation and trading across a diverse set of asset classes and markets globally. The framework consists of reusable building blocks packaged into a suite of libraries written in the Rust programming language. These building blocks cover foundational infrastructure as well as finance-related functions.\nAs a quantitative software engineer, you will work directly with researchers to help them use our low-latency components to deploy quantitative models in C++, Rust, and less latency sensitive models in Python. When you discover roadblocks for new types of models, you will design and build new components to enable those models to be researched and deployed. You will also understand, build, iterate and expand on the research done by our research groups. You will engage with research topics and cover new domains quickly; collaborate to build deep expertise with Two Sigma data and tools; apply high standards to the code and develop an ability to identify highly impactful projects in a sophisticated, constantly evolving and critically important domain.\nYou will take on the following responsibilities:\nDevelop a deep understanding in multiple research domains\nBecome a technical SME for the systems underpinning our research areas and help evolve these components\nPartner closely with our research partners to ideate and iterate within new areas of research. Engineers prototype, design, and implement low-latency quantitative components to permit new classes of quantitative models and tactics\nAnalyze quantitative characteristics from data generated in real-time trading and simulations\nResearch, develop, and simulate quantitative changes to alpha models, feature pipelines, and trading strategies\nPerform quantitative analysis to characterize and understand the quantitative impact of our work on Two Sigma's trading models to drive discussions with researchers, engineers and business leaders\n\nYou should possess the following qualifications:\nMinimum 1 year of experience with 5-10+ years of experience preferred in software engineering and quantitative analysis\nBS in Computer Science, Mathematics, Physics or related technical/quantitative subject area\nDeep knowledge of developing high performance software in a systems programming language such as Rust, C, or C++, and an ambition to become an SME at Rust\nExperience using Python for quantitative analysis\nExcellent interpersonal skills\nKnowledge of low-latency software development and optimization, statistical methods, convex optimization and finance and market structures are beneficial\n\nYou will enjoy the following benefits:\nCore Benefits: Fully paid medical and dental insurance premiums for employees and dependents, competitive 401k match, employer-paid life & disability insurance\nPerks: Onsite gyms with laundry service, wellness activities, casual dress, snacks, game rooms\nLearning: Tuition reimbursement, conference and training sponsorship\nTime Off: Generous vacation and unlimited sick days, competitive paid caregiver leaves\nHybrid Work Policy: Flexible in-office days with budget for home office setup\n\nThe base pay for this role will be between $165,000 and $300,000. 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