Job Description Help for Job Description. Opens a new window. Research Engineer positions offered by Citadel Securities Americas Services LLC ( Miami , Florida ). Develop and deploy internal applications and software solutions for quantitative research platforms. Design low-latency, high-throughput trading systems and infrastructure. Formulate mathematical and simulation models of complex market problems, relating constants and variables, restrictions, alternatives, conflicting objectives, and their numerical parameters using technology, mathematical and statistical modeling, and computer systems. Build and improve inter-application communication middleware software service for onsite and cloud data storage. Analyze complex business and technology problems and propose new designs and modifications to continuously improve trading systems performance, functionality and stability. Design and develop distributed data calculation components for processing big market data. Requires a Masters or foreign equivalent degree in Engineering, Computer Science or a related field. Must have demonstrated proficiency in the following: o C++ programming on a Unix platform; o Multithreaded application programming and network programming; o Scripting languages including Python and Linux shell scripting; o Analytic packages including R and Matlab; o Unix Inter-Process Communication (IPC) mechanisms including sockets and semaphores; o Data structures, algorithms, and computer architecture; and o Machine Learning techniques. Experience may be, but need not be, acquired concurrently. Please submit resume to citadelrecruitment@citadel.com.