Research Associate, Equities Data Engineer

Location: New York City; onsite four days per week at the New York City campus

Salary: $150,000–$200,000 annual base salary, plus discretionary target bonus.

Company

hirify.global is an asset management firm focused on investment research, systematic strategies, and solutions for global institutional investors.

What you will do

• Identify, evaluate, onboard, and maintain datasets that support systematic China equity research and investment decisions.
• Build scalable data models, ontologies, schemas, and production data pipelines from ingestion through delivery.
• Profile complex datasets to assess distributions, coverage, stability, structural breaks, and research suitability.
• Implement data quality checks, anomaly detection, monitoring, documentation, and reproducibility practices.
• Partner with quantitative researchers, developers, investors, engineers, data providers, and vendors to resolve issues and translate evolving requirements into reliable data assets.
• Improve tooling, standards, and best practices that increase research velocity and strengthen the data ecosystem.

Requirements

• 1–5 years of experience as a Data Engineer or in a closely related data-intensive role.
• Strong Python and SQL skills with experience building production-quality data pipelines.
• Experience with modern data platforms such as Snowflake or similar cloud data warehouses.
• Familiarity with distributed processing and workflow orchestration, such as Spark or Airflow.
• Experience reasoning about data correctness, lineage, versioning, reproducibility, and quality in high-dimensional and evolving datasets.
• Fluency in Mandarin is required. Familiarity with the Chinese equity market, including its market structure and data sources such as Wind, is also required.

Culture & Benefits

• Work in a culture centered on transparency, direct feedback, continuous improvement, and meritocracy.
• Collaborate with researchers, engineers, investors, and external data providers in an embedded investment environment.
• Receive opportunities for professional development and personal growth through rigorous feedback and self-reflection.
• Access a competitive suite of employee benefits and variable compensation through a discretionary target bonus.
• Immigration sponsorship is provided for this position.