Harrington Starr connects hedge funds, trading firms, and investment banks with world-class quants across global markets. With deep market knowledge and an unrivalled candidate network, Harrington Starr delivers the specialist talent that drives performance and innovation in high-stake and competitive trading environments.
Download the FinTech Unfiltered 2025–2026 Salary Survey for insight into hiring trends, compensation benchmarks, and market movement across quantitative finance, trading technology, data, infrastructure, and systematic trading environments.
We support quantitative finance hiring across systematic trading firms, hedge funds, proprietary trading businesses, and institutional investment platforms.
Hiring in this market is increasingly driven by speed, infrastructure, and research capability. The strongest quantitative talent is rarely active, with firms competing for specialists across alpha research, low-latency engineering, AI, and systematic trading infrastructure.
Researchers and strategists developing alpha models, signal generation, pricing models, and portfolio optimisation capability across systematic trading and investment environments.
Systematic traders, execution quants, and portfolio managers operating across multi-asset, algorithmic, and high-performance trading environments.
Python, C++, and Java engineers building low-latency systems, research platforms, trading infrastructure, and scalable quant environments.
Machine learning engineers and AI specialists working across alternative data, predictive modelling, NLP, and trading intelligence systems.
We regularly engage with leaders across the quantitative finance market through industry events and ongoing hiring conversations, including Future Alpha and Quant Strats.
Through our podcast FinTech Focus TV, Harrington Starr regularly speaks to leaders across quantitative finance, systematic trading, AI, and trading technology at industry events such as Future Alpha and Quant Strats.
Recorded at Future Alpha New York 2026, this conversation explores the realities of building and scaling a systematic trading firm, from infrastructure decisions to strategy, research, and execution.
Recorded live at Quant Strats in London, this episode explores how custom LLMs, AI adoption, and human oversight are shaping quant finance, buy-side workflows, and trading environments.
Recorded at Quant Strats London, this episode explores the evolving demand for kdb+/q skills, practical learning pathways, and the specialist infrastructure talent behind high-performance trading systems.
Quantitative finance hiring is increasingly concentrated around firms where research capability, infrastructure, and execution speed directly influence performance.
Harrington Starr supports hiring across:
The strongest quantitative talent is rarely active in the market. Firms increasingly compete for specialists across systematic trading, low-latency engineering, AI research, quantitative development, and trading infrastructure.
Our team operates across the markets where this talent is built, maintaining relationships across quantitative finance, trading technology, and market infrastructure communities globally.
Whether you're a recent graduate eager to launch your career at a startup or a seasoned QA professional seeking a new challenge at a leading financial institution, our dedicated team is here to help you land a role that aligns with your quantitative finance career goals. We equip you with valuable information and resources that enable you to make informed decisions about which roles best sit your needs.
Our specialists will leverage their in-depth knowledge and vast business network to connect you with top-tier financial technology companies. Guided by our personalised, value-led approach, we’ll take the time to understand your career aspirations and distinctive professional qualities, details that will allow us to direct you toward positions that let you put your skill set into action.
If you enable us to become your job search partner, you can rest assured that we’ll present you with suitable quantitative finance jobs in no time. Simply contact one of our consultants, share your career vision and desired role specifications, and let us guide you towards the next stage of your career in financial technology.