Quantitative C++ Developer Intern (AI)

Location: Hong Kong, Hong Kong

Company

hirify.global is a global multi-manager hedge fund investing across quantitative, tactical, fundamental equity, and discretionary macro and fixed-income strategies.

What you will do

• Develop and optimize low-latency trading systems, market data engines, and strategy backtesting frameworks.
• Implement high-performance data structures and algorithms for core trading and research modules.
• Explore and integrate agentic AI and LLM tools for strategy research, code generation, and research workflows.
• Collaborate with quantitative researchers and traders to translate strategy logic into efficient, robust code.
• Write technical documentation and build reusable components and development tooling.

Requirements

• Pursuing a Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science or a related field.
• Strong C++ fundamentals, including the STL, memory management, and template programming.
• Solid understanding of data structures, algorithms, and time and space complexity.
• Comfort working in a Linux development environment.
• Hands-on experience with agentic AI and LLM applications.

Nice to have

• Competitive programming achievements or strong contest rankings, such as ICPC, CCPC, Codeforces 2000+, USACO, NOI/NOIP, or equivalent.
• Experience with quantitative projects, strategy backtesting, high-frequency trading systems, or market data engines.
• Knowledge of multithreading, concurrency, lock-free data structures, or network programming including TCP/UDP and multicast market data.
• Proficiency in Python for rapid prototyping, data analysis, and C++ integration.
• Open-source contributions.

Culture & Benefits

• Three- to six-month internship including the summer, with potential progression to a full-time role.
• One-on-one mentorship from senior quantitative engineers and researchers.
• Exposure to production-grade trading systems and modern AI tooling.
• Dedicated manager, learning sessions, hands-on skills workshops, and networking opportunities with senior leaders.
• Collaborative environment with learning, educational, inclusion, and community initiatives.