Senior Software Engineer

Who You Are:

• A strong technical individual contributor who takes ownership of implementations and outcomes
• Comfortable driving large, ambiguous initiatives from concept through delivery
• Effective at mentoring and developing engineers, setting clear expectations and providing constructive feedback
• Collaborative, thoughtful, and effective working across disciplines and geographies
• Committed to intellectual integrity, transparency, and openness

Your Role:

As a software engineer at AQR, you will build or extend our:

• Scalable, AWS-based storage and computing infrastructure
• Generalized research platform
• Data ingestion and validation engine
• Model computation and signal generation pipeline
• Machine learning / Natural Language Processing pipeline

What You’ll Bring:

• Bachelor's or Master's degree in Computer Science, Engineering, Mathematics, or a related technical field.
• 7+ years of professional software engineering experience designing and delivering production software systems.
• Experience building and deploying cloud-native applications, preferably using AWS services and modern cloud infrastructure.
• Experience developing and optimizing large-scale data processing pipelines and working with big data technologies.
• Experience designing, building, and operating production-scale AI/ML applications, with a strong focus on system stability, reliability, and scalability.
• Strong understanding of software architecture, scalability, performance optimization, observability, and operational excellence for production systems.
• Experience supporting quantitative research, alpha generation platforms, signal generation, portfolio construction, or trade generation systems is a strong plus.
• Strong software engineering skills in Python; experience with C++ is a plus.
• Strong Linux development and troubleshooting experience in production environments.
• Proficiency with SQL and experience designing and optimizing data storage and retrieval for high-volume applications.
• Demonstrated ability to work effectively in fast-paced, agile environments with evolving requirements and competing priorities.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills, with the ability to clearly explain technical concepts and architectural decisions across engineering teams.
• Familiarity with financial markets, investment workflows, or time-sensitive distributed applications is a plus.