Engineering - Data Engineer - VP

About AQR Capital Management 

AQR is a global investment management firm built at the intersection of financial theory and practical application. We strive to deliver superior, long-term results for our clients by seeking to filter out market noise to identify and isolate what matters most, and by developing ideas that stand up to rigorous testing. Underpinning this philosophy is an unrelenting commitment to excellence in technology — powering our insights and analysis. This unique combination has made us leaders in alternative and traditional strategies since 1998.

AQR takes a systematic, research-driven approach, applying quantitative tools to process fundamental information and manage risk. Our clients include institutional investors, such as pension funds, insurance companies, endowments, foundations and sovereign wealth funds, as well as financial advisors.

The Team:

AQR is building a new Data Engineering team within the Enterprise Engineering organization to focus on solving problems working with big data.  This team will work directly with researchers and others across the firm to build and manage the infrastructure that loads, validates, and provisions many large data sets used in the research and investment processes. 

Your Role:

As a data engineer you will participate in designing and building a new enterprise data platform used by quantitative researchers to manage large volumes of market, reference, and alternative data, both structured and unstructured. You will also build critical tools that will be used across the firm to validate data, back-test and find valuable investment insights.  You will be collaborating directly with Researchers and Portfolio Managers to define and implement detailed business requirements for new and existing projects.  This critical team will use big data technologies and cloud-based platforms to build an extensible and scalable solution to the data needs of one of the largest quantitative investment firms in the world. 

What You’ll Bring:

• 6+ Years of relevant work experience 
• Bachelors/Masters/PhD in Computer Science, Engineering, or related discipline 
• Outstanding coding, debugging, and analytical skills 
• Ability to work directly with business stakeholders to spec out and implement solutions
• Experience working in a distributed data environment and working with large data sets
• Knowledge of big data frameworks such as Spark and Hadoop 
• An interest in quantitative finance (no finance / trading experience required)
• Familiarity with one of the large cloud providers is a plus but not required 
• Experience with Python / NumPy / pandas or similar quantitative stack is a plus 
• Familiarity with AI models and/or frameworks is a plus 

Who You Are:

• Mature, thoughtful, and a natural fit for our collaborative culture 
• Hard-working and eager to learn in a fast-paced, innovative environment 
• Committed to intellectual integrity, transparency, and openness 
• Motivated by the groundbreaking effects of technology-at-scale 
• We believe that the next innovation to transform our business could come from anyone at AQR. Expect to be recognized not only for your diligence and hard work today, but for your vision for tomorrow. We are mathematicians, computer scientists, engineers and artists, passionate about advancing financial research and pushing the limits of today’s technology.