Research Data Engineer
1w ago
EuropeSeniorOnsitec++pythonsqldata pipelinesdata modelingmachine learningdistributed data systemstime series
We're looking for a Research Data Engineer to build and operate the data platform that powers the fund’s researchers, AI systems, and trading infrastructure at a technology-first hedge fund in Amsterdam with relocation support.
About the company
- Our partner is a hedge fund where technology is the core of the business.
- The company builds trading systems at the intersection of financial markets, AI, and frontier technologies.
- The fund operates its own AI research lab, has stable long-term funding, and access to experimental hardware.
Responsibilities
- Design and maintain scalable pipelines for market, trading, and research data.
- Build reliable ingestion systems for exchange feeds, execution venues, alternative datasets, and internal data sources.
- Develop data quality frameworks, validation checks, monitoring, and observability tooling.
- Create standardized datasets used across quantitative research, machine learning, and production trading systems.
- Optimize storage and retrieval of large-scale time series data.
- Work closely with researchers to transform raw data into research-ready features.
- Partner with engineering teams to ensure consistent data models across research and production environments.
- Improve metadata management, lineage tracking, and reproducibility of research results.
- Evaluate and integrate new datasets that may provide trading edge.
Requirements
- Experience working with market data, order book data, or trading systems.
- Experience supporting machine learning workflows.
- Knowledge of quantitative research and backtesting environments.
- Great software engineering skills in C++ or Python.
- Experience building production-grade data pipelines and distributed data systems.
- Deep understanding of data modeling, storage formats, and data lifecycle management.
- Good SQL skills and practical experience working with large datasets.
Conditions
- Location: Netherlands (Amsterdam) - relocation support provided.
- Work at the intersection of trading, AI, and frontier technologies.
- Opportunity to build systems from scratch.
- Access to an in-house AI research lab.
- Use of modern and experimental hardware.
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