Junior Quantitative Researcher (HFT)

TL;DR

Junior Quantitative Researcher (HFT): Analyze market data, build models, and prototype short-term trading strategies in a high-frequency trading environment with an accent on quantitative signal design and backtesting. Focus on developing research pipelines, improving model performance, and scaling strategies into production.

Location: On-site in London, UK

Salary: £100K+ plus bonus structure

Company

hirify.global is a company specializing in high-frequency trading and quantitative research.

What you will do

• Work with large-scale, high-frequency datasets to identify market microstructure patterns.
• Design and backtest short-term predictive signals.
• Develop research pipelines and tools to improve strategy testing efficiency and reliability.
• Iteratively improve models through experimentation and deployment feedback.
• Collaborate closely with senior researchers and engineers to scale research into production.
• Gradually take ownership of live trading strategies with potential to manage own trading book.

Requirements

• Location: Must be able to work on-site in London, UK
• Degree in Engineering, Physics, Applied Mathematics, Computer Science, or related quantitative field.
• 1–3 years of relevant experience in quantitative research, applied machine learning, or data science; finance experience is a plus.
• Strong quantitative and statistical skills with ability to design predictive models and test signals.

Nice to have

• Experience with C++ or Rust programming languages.
• Background in high-frequency or tick-level market data.
• Open-source contributions, Kaggle competition track record, or published research.