Quantitative Technologist (C++ Intern)

Summary

Radix University is a research-driven trading firm that seeks a C++ Quantitative Technologist Intern to gain hands-on experience in live trading systems and technology innovation. The intern will work with modern C++ to develop production-level code and contribute to automated strategies and machine learning research.

Responsibilities

• Gain experience working on live trading systems, research infrastructure, and alpha generation through technology innovation
• Leverage cutting-edge software and hardware (mostly with modern C++) to push production level code daily
• Evolve fully-automated strategies, alpha generation processes, live trading systems, and machine learning research and simulation infrastructure used to analyze petabytes of data
• Provide intern projects that add real value to the firm
• Encourage exploration and independent approaches to improve inefficiencies, propose iterations, and own significant processes during your internship

Skills

• Persistent Drive to Improve - Do you have an innate desire to rise to the next level, even after great accomplishments?
• Creative Problem Solving and Probabilistic Thinking - You must enjoy learning and implementing new concepts quickly, combining knowledge from different domains to create new ideas, and take a data-driven and probabilistic approach to testing and implementing new ideas
• Team Mindset - We want people who understand 1+1 > 2 and are as committed to making the team better through sharing ideas as they are driven to improve their individual performance
• Mental Flexibility & Self Awareness - You'll have to frequently adapt based on new data, results, and feedback on your ideas and performance
• Orientation for Making Money - Although we value academic training, our work is not an academic exercise. We take a hacker's approach to testing ideas, dropping projects that consume time without high upside, and focusing our next efforts on what will create the most value for the firm
• Software development skills to have or develop
• Low-level computer languages like C or C++; awareness of strength in particular language and ability to solve more complex problems due to understanding nuances of the language
• C++ is the language you will be using for your projects during your summer with us
• Understanding of data structures, algorithmic complexities, and numerical algorithms
• Systems Architecture - knowledge and experience with distributed systems and communication
• Software Architecture - knowledge and experience working with a large code base
• Development Processes - experience delivering and deploying software in production environments

Qualifications

Must Haves

• Persistent Drive to Improve - Do you have an innate desire to rise to the next level, even after great accomplishments?
• Creative Problem Solving and Probabilistic Thinking - You must enjoy learning and implementing new concepts quickly, combining knowledge from different domains to create new ideas, and take a data-driven and probabilistic approach to testing and implementing new ideas
• Team Mindset - We want people who understand 1+1 > 2 and are as committed to making the team better through sharing ideas as they are driven to improve their individual performance
• Mental Flexibility & Self Awareness - You'll have to frequently adapt based on new data, results, and feedback on your ideas and performance
• Orientation for Making Money - Although we value academic training, our work is not an academic exercise. We take a hacker's approach to testing ideas, dropping projects that consume time without high upside, and focusing our next efforts on what will create the most value for the firm
• Software development skills to have or develop
• Low-level computer languages like C or C++; awareness of strength in particular language and ability to solve more complex problems due to understanding nuances of the language
• C++ is the language you will be using for your projects during your summer with us
• Understanding of data structures, algorithmic complexities, and numerical algorithms
• Systems Architecture - knowledge and experience with distributed systems and communication
• Software Architecture - knowledge and experience working with a large code base
• Development Processes - experience delivering and deploying software in production environments