Research Data Engineer

📊 Research Data Engineer @ Technology-first hedge fund 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. 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. 🛠 What you will do • 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. 🧩 What we're looking for • 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. ✨ What the company offers • 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. 📩 Contact To apply for the role, reach out to @••••••