Job Description

The Quantitative Trading & Research (QTR) group is responsible for systematic trading across FX, Rates, Commodities, Credit, Equity and a wide range of markets. Within QTR, AI Market Lab brings together quantitative research, modern artificial intelligence, market microstructure, and high-performance engineering to develop the next generation of electronic trading capabilities. Our work spans signal research, pricing, market making, execution, portfolio construction, risk management, and the production systems that support them. We are hiring globally across New York, London, Singapore or Hong Kong.

Job Summary

As an Associate or Vice President for the QTR team, you will build the research and production technology behind AI-driven systematic trading. You will work at the boundary of quantitative research, low-latency engineering, and ML infrastructure, creating reliable platforms that shorten the path from raw market data and research prototypes to monitored, resilient production strategies.

This role is ideal for engineers who enjoy turning ambiguous research requirements into clean interfaces, fast systems, and reproducible workflows—without losing sight of trading realities like latency, determinism, and operational risk.

Job Responsibilities

• Design and build high-performance market-data, feature-computation, backtesting, simulation, model-serving, execution, and monitoring components for systematic trading.
• Develop reliable low-latency C++ services and APIs that integrate quantitative models with real-time market data, pricing, risk controls, and order-management systems.
• Build scalable data and research pipelines that support granular historical data, reproducible experiments, distributed computation, and rapid strategy iteration.
• Optimize critical paths for throughput, tail latency, memory efficiency, resilience, and deterministic behavior; use profiling and measurement to guide engineering decisions.
• Productionize machine-learning models, including training workflows, model versioning, real-time inference, deployment automation, observability, and rollback controls.
• Partner with researchers and traders to translate strategy requirements into robust software, improve research-to-production consistency, and support live systems.

Required Qualifications

• Bachelor’s, Master’s, or PhD in computer science, engineering, mathematics, or a related technical discipline (or equivalent professional experience).
• 2+ years of professional experience in software engineering, quantitative development, low-latency systems, or ML infrastructure.
• Strong modern C++ skills: data structures, concurrency, memory management, performance profiling, and production debugging.
• Proficiency in Python and experience building software for quantitative researchers or other data-intensive applications.
• Solid understanding of distributed systems, testing, software design, reliability, and operating production services end-to-end.
• Evidence of owning performance-critical systems from design → deployment → monitoring → incident resolution.

Preferred Qualifications

• Experience with electronic trading architecture: exchange connectivity, market-data normalization, order management, pre-trade risk, or execution systems.
• Knowledge of Linux performance engineering: kernel/network tuning, lock-free programming, hardware-aware optimization, or FPGA-adjacent systems.
• Experience with ML/data tooling such as PyTorch, JAX, CUDA, GPU clusters, Ray, Kafka, Kubernetes, Spark, or comparable technologies.
• Understanding of market microstructure, backtesting pitfalls, transaction costs, and the operational needs of live quantitative strategies.
• Experience in environments operating real-time systems (hedge fund, proprietary trading firm, market maker, exchange, or financial institution).

JPMorganChase, one of the oldest financial institutions, offers innovative financial solutions to millions of consumers, small businesses and many of the world’s most prominent corporate, institutional and government clients under the J.P. Morgan and Chase brands. Our history spans over 200 years and today we are a leader in investment banking, consumer and small business banking, commercial banking, financial transaction processing and asset management.

We offer a competitive total rewards package including base salary determined based on the role, experience, skill set and location. Those in eligible roles may receive commission-based pay and/or discretionary incentive compensation, paid in the form of cash and/or forfeitable equity, awarded in recognition of individual achievements and contributions. We also offer a range of benefits and programs to meet employee needs, based on eligibility. These benefits include comprehensive health care coverage, on-site health and wellness centers, a retirement savings plan, backup childcare, tuition reimbursement, mental health support, financial coaching and more. Additional details about total compensation and benefits will be provided during the hiring process.

We recognize that our people are our strength and the diverse talents they bring to our global workforce are directly linked to our success. We are an equal opportunity employer and place a high value on diversity and inclusion at our company. We do not discriminate on the basis of any protected attribute, including race, religion, color, national origin, gender, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, age, marital or veteran status, pregnancy or disability, or any other basis protected under applicable law. We also make reasonable accommodations for applicants’ and employees’ religious practices and beliefs, as well as mental health or physical disability needs. Visit our FAQs for more information about requesting an accommodation.

JPMorgan Chase & Co. is an Equal Opportunity Employer, including Disability/Veterans