Vice President, Senior Quantitative Developer, Systematic Trading

Vice President, Senior Quantitative Developer, Systematic Trading (Pacific Investment Management Company LLC (PIMCO) – Newport Beach, CA); Offered salary range of $205,000 to $245,000 per year. Multiple positions available: Identify the core functionality required from PIMCO’s software programs, including the level of security and performance needs. Analyze users’ needs and software requirements to determine feasibility of design within time and cost constraints. Confer with systems analysts, engineers, programmers, project managers, and others within PIMCO Technology to obtain information on project limitations and capabilities, performance requirements and interfaces. Design, test, develop, and enhance software solutions to meet user needs including development of data visualization framework to provide insightful and accessible representations of complex data sets and trading strategies. Translate market simulations into trading systems to increase PIMCO’s daily trading ability. Collaborate closely with Quantitative Portfolio Managers and Systems Engineers to ensure accurate and efficient translation of strategies. Recommend software upgrades as appropriate for existing programs and systems, and collaborate within the Technology division to set operations specifications, create optimum software, and ensure thorough software maintenance and testing that the solutions function normally and work seamlessly in conjunction with each other to achieve their objectives. Utilize Python in a hands-on developer role.

Requires a Bachelor’s degree (or foreign equivalent) in Financial Engineering or a closely related technical field and 3 years of experience in the job offered or in designing and developing solutions for electronic trading. Must have 3 years of experience in each of the following: systematic trading systems, including design and operation; Python programming; quantitative finance; working with portfolio managers converting strategy ideas into implementations; and, designing and building multi-strategy trading platforms. Experience may be gained concurrently.

Please submit resumes to Lupe.Rubalcaba@pimco.com. Reference Job ID: 7821509.