The company seeks a Senior Quantitative Engineer to design and maintain high-performance systems for quantitative analytics, trading, and risk management in the energy sector. The role requires strong software engineering skills and expertise in Python and performance-critical systems.
This position focuses on delivering a tangible impact within the energy industry by building and sustaining robust, high-performance infrastructure. The engineer will be responsible for creating systems that support quantitative analytics, optimization, trading workflows, and risk management.
Responsibilities
- Create and upkeep reliable, high-performance systems that enable quantitative analytics, optimization, trading processes, and risk management.
- Develop and refine models for pricing, asset optimization, and risk calculations, prioritizing performance and reliability.
- Process real-time market and operational data streams to support analytics and decision-making systems.
- Work closely with Trading, Structuring, Risk, and Quant teams to provide production-ready, practical solutions.
- Oversee projects from initial conception through implementation and continuous improvement.
- Ensure operational reliability, monitoring, CI/CD, and maintainability of critical systems and infrastructure, collaborating closely with IT.
- Contribute to engineering best practices, mentor team members, and support continuous improvement.
Requirements
- University degree, ideally Master’s or PhD, in Engineering, Computer Science, Mathematics, Physics, or a related discipline.
- Extensive software engineering experience across backend, frontend, databases, APIs, and infrastructure.
- Proven experience in computationally intensive workflows, real-time data processing, and performance-critical systems.
- Experience with quantitative finance, energy markets, market data, asset modelling.
- Proficiency in Python and modern compiled languages with low-level optimization expertise, including experience with numerical computing frameworks.
- Strong system design skills with focus on reliability, maintainability, and performance.
- Good communication skills and ability to collaborate across front-office and cross-functional teams.
- Fluent English.
- Ability/willingness to relocate to Lausanne, Switzerland.
Nice to have
What the company offers
- Competitive salary package
- Market-oriented salary
- Training and development
- Diverse opportunities for career growth
- Flexible work models
About the company
Alpiq Hydro Aare AG operates within the energy sector, contributing to the industry's development and innovation.
- The company is Alpiq, and the role is part of the energy sector.
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