LLC, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA

Software/Systems Developer

Work as a member of the Production Engineering Team. The team is responsible for:
• Providing engineering support for monitoring and troubleshooting production trading systems
• Managing releases of the trade engine software
• Enhancing and maintaining the trade engine software
• Developing tools supporting the operation and management of production trading systems
• Managing trade engine test environments
• Consulting other teams on production systems issues

The primary technologies utilized by the team are C++, Python, Java, Perl, and shell scripting. Primary target operating systems are Solaris and Red Hat Linux. Candidate must have experience with C++ and Java. Candidate must have experience with software architecture, object-oriented design, and the ability to present such material to others. A bachelors or graduate degree in computer science is required.

In the coming year, candidates are likely to work on projects such as the following:


• Analyze existing multi-threaded C++ trade engine components for performance problems, and make corresponding performance enhancements to those components
• Develop a new trade engine component to manage a trade history database
• Implement a strategy for disaster recovery, including real-time capture of live trading data and market data at off-site location
• Develop Python and Java tools and components to support operation and management of trading systems
• Develop a web-based portal to integrate/consolidate operational and management tools for trading systems
• Unify disparate alarm and notification systems including email, blackberry and telephone notifications

Quantitative Research Analyst

Work as a member of an existing statistical-arbitrage trading team:
• Responsible for analyzing new information sources
• Developing new trading signals
• Developing optimization technologies
• Researching risk models
• Monitoring live trading
• Deploying trading systems

Applicants must have a strong educational background with an advanced degree in math, statistics, physics, economics, engineering, finance, or a related field. Most members of the Prediction Company research team have a Ph.D. with at least 2 years of experience in statistical-arbitrage or similar quantitative trading techniques.