Quantitative Developer / Research Engineer - Hong Kong
My client is a highly successful Asia-focused hedge fund manager seeking a Quantitative Developer / Research Engineer to join their equities investment business in Hong Kong.
This is a rare opportunity for a technically elite engineer to work directly alongside Quant Researchers, Traders, and Portfolio Managers on high-impact investment research and AI-driven initiatives.
The role sits at the intersection of quantitative research, machine learning, AI engineering, and investment technology. The successful candidate will help design and build predictive research systems, research infrastructure, analytics tooling, and AI-enabled workflows that directly influence investment decisions and alpha generation.
Responsibilities:
- Build and enhance research infrastructure, data pipelines, and quantitative tooling for the equities business.
- Work closely with researchers and traders on signal generation, modelling, and investment research workflows.
- Develop predictive models using structured and alternative datasets.
- Apply machine learning, NLP, LLM, and RAG-based techniques to research and investment problems.
- Build scalable internal analytics platforms and AI-enabled research systems.
- Improve automation, data quality, model validation, and research efficiency across the investment platform.
- Contribute to the evolution of the firm’s AI-driven investment research capability.
Requirements:
- 2-4 years’ experience within quantitative development, data science, machine learning, or research engineering environments.
- Strong Python programming skills.
- Strong grounding in mathematics, statistics, and probability.
- Experience working with databases, large datasets, and research tooling.
- Exposure to machine learning, NLP, LLMs, or AI tooling highly advantageous.
- Strong communication skills with the ability to work closely with both technical and investment stakeholders.
- Highly curious, ambitious, detail-oriented, and commercially minded personality.
The firm offers a highly collaborative environment with direct exposure to senior investment professionals and the opportunity to work on genuinely cutting-edge AI and quantitative research initiatives within a lean, high-performing hedge fund platform.
This role is particularly well suited to somebody looking to transition from a pure engineering role into a more research-oriented and investment-facing position over time, while remaining deeply technical.
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