Senior Quantitative Researcher
About the job
- At least 5 years of relevant experience at high-frequency trading companies.
- Extensive expertise using machine-learning models for high-frequency trading strategies.
- Knowledge of and hands-on experience with machine-learning pipelines running separately or together across multiple exchanges.
- Experience building non-trivial statistical arbitrage strategies that profit from price differences between two or more instruments.
- Willingness to acquire deeper knowledge in high-frequency trading and apply it to trading across multiple exchanges.
- Ability to work across the entire pipeline, from sampling data and creating features to launching strategies in production.
- Proficiency in at least one programming language; Python is preferred.
- Ability to work with colleagues from different backgrounds and willingness to learn new things.
- Use machine-learning methods to develop and deploy statistical arbitrage strategies.
- Explore new trading ideas by analyzing market data.
- Design features and models to predict the behavior of hundreds or thousands of securities over 10-second to 10-minute timeframes with different underlyings.
- Work with machine-learning pipelines to support the strategy-development process.
- Drive consistent optimization and advancement of existing models.
- Communicate with internal teams.
- Mentor and potentially lead team members.
- Experience with mentoring, people management, and leading interns or a team of researchers.
About the company
Pinely is a privately funded proprietary trading group that uses in-house research and technology to trade the world’s financial markets with high-frequency trading and ultra-low latency networks. It trades with its own capital, not client money, and operates across Singapore, Cyprus, and the Netherlands with shared core technology. Researchers and technologists develop and implement strategies through an integrated tech stack and ultra-fast networks, supported by real-time risk management. The goal is to consistently profit from market opportunities by refining ideas and speed, putting its money on the line every day.
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Simplify's Take
What believers are saying
- August 2026 careers page lists multiple research and infrastructure openings, signaling active expansion.
- Pinely still advertises top-tier competitive-programming hiring, sustaining a strong talent funnel.
- Its 2025 Amsterdam lease and 2026 office footprint show long-term commitment and scale.
What critics are saying
- No recent funding disclosures or audited financials reduce visibility into trading durability.
- Heavy reliance on proprietary trading exposes Pinely to strategy decay and exchange rule changes.
- A bad performance cycle could quickly compress bonuses, hiring, and retention across Amsterdam.
What makes Pinely unique
- Amsterdam HQ, with offices in Singapore and Paphos, anchors a global trading footprint.
- Pinely runs algorithmic high-frequency trading across dozens of international exchanges.
- The firm markets deep research hiring, especially C++, ML, and quantitative strategy talent.
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Flexible Work Hours
Conference Attendance Budget
Professional Development Budget
Tuition Reimbursement