This role pays more than
90%
of similar roles. Most pay
$126,499–$206,336
— the shaded band above.
At the midpoint, this role pays about
$250k
versus about
$166k
for comparable roles.
Based on 240 similar postings.
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About Balyasny Asset Management
Balyasny Asset Management (BAM) is a global multi-manager hedge fund offering diversified investment strategies across equities, macro, commodities, and systematic trading.
Balyasny Asset Management currently has
45 open roles
on FindRole.
Listed pay typically runs
$175,000–$250,000
across 36 roles with salary data.
The Quantitative Developer - Systematic Research Technology joins the Systematic Research Technology team to build research and trading systems that enable investment teams to discover, evaluate, and deploy ideas. You will design and own software supporting data processing, model evaluation, and systematic trading while developing Python tooling for reproducible workflows and C++ components for performance-sensitive production systems. The role involves partnering with Quantitative Researchers to translate complex requirements into durable technical solutions while improving system reliability, observability, and testability. Candidates must possess strong programming skills in Python and/or C++, along with experience building data-intensive or production-critical systems. You will solve problems across the research-to-production lifecycle, making architecture decisions for systematic investing tools. Required expertise includes software engineering fundamentals, performance analysis, and debugging within a high-quality engineering environment.
Python
C++
Kubernetes
Machine Learning
Data Engineering
Distributed Systems
Cloud Computing
Optimization
Data Pipelines
Real-time Monitoring
Analytics
Research Infrastructure
C++
Python
PyTorch
JAX
CUDA
Kubernetes
Kafka
Spark
Ray
Distributed Systems
Low-latency Engineering
Linux Performance Engineering
order-management systems
market-data normalization
Backtesting
Profiling
Concurrency