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title: 'Research Engineer at Ansatz Capital'
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# Research Engineer at Ansatz Capital

- **Company:** Ansatz Capital
- **Location:** New York, NY
- **Employment:** full-time
- **Work type:** hybrid
- **Posted:** 2016-05-25
- **Last confirmed live:** 2026-09-07
- **Apply:** https://jobs.lever.co/ansatzcapital/ff1fb5f8-854c-4ef8-9246-0c0c472ed95c

## Job description

We are looking for a research engineer to research, test, and deploy new trading strategies, as well as to design and build research infrastructure to test trading ideas.

Candidates focusing on strategy development should be strong quantitative problem solvers interested in identifying and monetizing statistical patterns in the financial markets and also adept at implementing their ideas in Python. We are looking for someone who is both intellectually curious and also self-sufficient to help maintain and develop various trading strategies.

Candidates with software implementation skills and comfort in implementing both performant code and designing user-friendly tools will also be strongly considered. We are looking for someone who is effective at building usable software quickly and correctly to extend the scope of our quantitative research and coverage of our trading strategies.

Compensation consists of base salary, discretionary performance bonus, and possible participation in longer-term incentive schemes.

Duties

- Writing Python code to express statistical ideas and relationships between securities
- Coming up with and iterating upon novel ideas and hypotheses about market participants and dynamics
- Collaborating with teammates on new trading ideas
- Extending existing research tools to support novel use cases and needs, as well as designing and implementing new tools to support research and trading needs

## Qualifications

- Bachelor’s in computer science, mathematics, physics, or similar field, with strong familiarity with statistics and quantitative problem-solving
- Self-sufficient ability to implement statistical ideas in code
- Strong familiarity with Python and C++ (or equivalent) preferred
- Interest in financial markets or learning more about financial markets
- Previous experience in quantitative finance or trading is a plus, but is not required

## Benefits

- Catered meals and bountiful snacks
- Generous budget for home office equipment
- Health / Dental / Vision / 401k
- Fitness and wellness benefits
- Base compensation: $150,000-250,000 with additional discretionary annual performance bonus

## About Ansatz Capital

## Company Overview
- **One-liner**: Ansatz Capital is a quantitative trading firm in New York that applies scientific rigor and custom low-latency technology to trade across global financial markets.
- **Entity Type**: Private (no disclosed funding rounds)
- **Headquarters**: New York, New York, United States ([linkedin.com](https://linkedin.com/company/ansatz-capital))
- **Founded**: 2013 ([linkedin.com](https://linkedin.com/company/ansatz-capital))
- **Founders**: Albert Shieh and Charles Chen (Partners; co-founders based on leadership structure) ([linkedin.com](https://linkedin.com/company/ansatz-capital))

## Core Business
- **Primary industry**: Financial Services – Quantitative / Algorithmic Trading
- **Target customers**: Proprietary trading (the firm trades its own capital; no external clients)
- **Mission / purpose**: “Treat markets as an intellectual discipline—something that can be studied, refined, and innovated upon.” ([builtin.com](https://builtin.com/company/ansatz-capital))

## Products & Services
Ansatz Capital does not sell a product; its sole “offering” is its proprietary trading operation:
- **Proprietary Quantitative Trading**: The firm develops and runs its own trading strategies, leveraging a custom technology stack (C++20, Python, Linux, kernel-bypass networking) to achieve ultra-low latency and high-throughput across multiple asset classes. ([jobs.lever.co](https://jobs.lever.co/ansatzcapital/39609b59-4c21-44b8-bcaa-7209db6125cb))

## Market Standing
- **Valuation / Market Cap**: Not disclosed
- **Key Metric**: Total headcount of 17 employees (+5.3% YoY) ([linkedin.com](https://linkedin.com/company/ansatz-capital))
- **Notable Investors / Partners**: None publicly listed; the firm is fully self-funded (proprietary capital)
- **Growth Signals**: Small, lean team; expanding globally with offices in New York (HQ) and London; annual traffic to website grew +32.8% YoY ([linkedin.com](https://linkedin.com/company/ansatz-capital))

## Competitive Advantages
- **Highly technical, lean team** – Everyone programs, including researchers and management. The firm keeps headcount low to move fast and encourage deep collaboration.
- **Custom low-latency infrastructure** – Linux kernel tuning, C++20 codebase, lock-free algorithms, kernel-bypass networking, and cloud-scalable research infrastructure. ([jobs.lever.co](https://jobs.lever.co/ansatzcapital/39609b59-4c21-44b8-bcaa-7209db6125cb))
- **Culture of intellectual rigor** – Markets are treated as an academic discipline, fostering a collaborative environment where research is key.

## Strategic Focus
- **Technology-led innovation** – Continuously optimise the full stack (from hardware drivers to Python interfaces) for latency and bandwidth.
- **Talent acquisition** – Actively recruiting exceptional software engineers and research engineers in New York and London, with an emphasis on C++ and performance engineering skills.
- **Scalable research infrastructure** – Leveraging AWS and cloud technologies to support ever-growing research and trading capacity. ([jobs.lever.co](https://jobs.lever.co/ansatzcapital/39609b59-4c21-44b8-bcaa-7209db6125cb))

## Why Work Here
- **Hybrid & office culture** – Hybrid work model (New York & London); employees typically work from physical offices in downtown Manhattan and London. ([builtin.com](https://builtin.com/company/ansatz-capital))
- **Compensation & benefits** – Base salary $150,000–$250,000 (plus discretionary annual performance bonus), health/dental/vision, 401k, catered meals and snacks, generous home office equipment budget, fitness and wellness benefits. ([jobs.lever.co](https://jobs.lever.co/ansatzcapital/39609b59-4c21-44b8-bcaa-7209db6125cb))
- **Engineering culture** – “Everyone programs”; exposure to a full-stack trading system with fast release cycles. Emphasis on collaboration and intellectual curiosity. ([jobs.lever.co](https://jobs.lever.co/ansatzcapital/39609b59-4c21-44b8-bcaa-7209db6125cb))
- **Small team impact** – With only ~17 people, new hires can directly shape the firm’s technology and trading strategies. ([linkedin.com](https://linkedin.com/company/ansatz-capital))
- **Use of AI in hiring** – The firm may use AI tools to review applications, but final decisions are made by humans. ([jobs.lever.co](https://jobs.lever.co/ansatzcapital))

## Sources
1. [linkedin.com](https://linkedin.com/company/ansatz-capital)
2. [jobs.lever.co](https://jobs.lever.co/ansatzcapital/39609b59-4c21-44b8-bcaa-7209db6125cb)
3. [builtin.com](https://builtin.com/company/ansatz-capital)
4. [theorg.com](https://theorg.com/org/ansatz-capital)

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