Research Software Engineer

Verition Fund Management LLC (“Verition”) is a multi-strategy, multi-manager hedge fund founded in 2008.  Verition focuses on global investment strategies including Global Credit, Global Convertible, Volatility & Capital Structure Arbitrage, Event-Driven Investing, Equity Long/Short & Capital Markets Trading, and Global Quantitative Trading.

We are looking for a talented research software engineer to build out a GenAI research infrastructure that powers real-time investment decisions. You'll partner directly with a Portfolio Manager who codes and works daily in the LLM space—taking ideas from research papers to prototype to production within AWS.  This role is embedded on the trading team so you can build solutions that directly influence portfolio positions.  This is a greenfield project that the right candidate gets to design and build from scratch, zero legacy code.  

Responsibilities:

• Use SOTA models and LLM’s to ingest unstructured (data (text), design chunking and embedding strategies, and serve results through RAG/hybrid-search microservices.
• Build regression tests and A/B frameworks; track drift, latency, and analyst-acceptance metrics.
• Ship weekly, log everything, and refine based on tight front-office feedback loops.
• Test SOTA papers, run ablations, and containerize winners via Docker on AWS GPU infrastructure (EKS/Batch).
• Work with DevOps, Data, and Risk teams to meet compliance and security standards.

Qualifications:

• 2–5 years of industry experience or strong grad/post-doc research background.
• Evidence of building and shipping working code (not just decks or papers).
• Fluency in Python (asyncio, typing, PyTest); familiarity with LangChain/LlamaIndex or similar tools.
• Experience with vector DBs (Weaviate, Qdrant, PGVector) and multimodal APIs.
• Metrics-driven experimental mindset.
• Strong communicator comfortable working directly with investment pros.
• Location: Ideally San Francisco, but open to this person working remotely
• Nice to Have:
• OSS or publication record in NLP, speech diarization, or information retrieval.
• Experience with AWS DevOps (Helm, EKS/Fargate, CDK/Terraform, Batch).
• Interest in equities or macro (finance knowledge not required).