Durlston Partners
Quantitative Researcher
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We're Hiring — HFT Quant | Tier-1 Proprietary Trading Firm
We're partnered with a leading global proprietary trading firm hiring HFT Quants to join one of their core high-frequency trading teams. This is an excellent opportunity to join a top-performing, latency-sensitive business with world-class infrastructure, deep capital, and a strong engineering and research culture.
About the Role
As an HFT Quant, you'll be responsible for researching, developing, and refining high-frequency trading strategies. You'll work at the intersection of research, trading, and low-latency engineering — building signals, improving execution, and driving measurable PnL in a highly competitive environment.
The firm is open across asset classes — including equities, ETFs, futures, options, FX, and commodities — depending on your background and interest.
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Key Responsibilities
- Research, develop, and deploy high-frequency trading strategies
- Build and refine alpha signals, execution logic, and risk controls
- Work closely with low-latency engineers to optimise model performance in production
- Analyse market microstructure, order book dynamics, and execution behaviour
- Use large, high-resolution datasets to identify and validate trading opportunities
- Take ownership of live strategy performance and contribute directly to PnL
About You
- Strong academic background — MSc or PhD in a quantitative discipline (Maths, Physics, CS, Statistics, Engineering, or similar) from a top university
- 1–7+ years of experience as an HFT Quant, Quant Researcher, or Quant Trader at a prop firm, hedge fund, or market maker (firm open on seniority — junior through senior considered)
- Strong programming skills (C++ and/or Python)
- Deep understanding of market microstructure and order book dynamics
- Comfortable working with very large, high-frequency datasets
- Sharp analytical thinking, strong intuition for latency and execution, and strong engineering mindset
- Track record of building strategies that have generated live HFT PnL is a strong plus
- Highly motivated, collaborative, and thrives in a fast-moving, competitive environment
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Location
Multiple offices globally — open to discussion based on candidate location and strategy focus.
Compensation
Highly competitive base + performance-driven bonus structure, among the best in the industry.
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