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# Principal Quant Developer

- **Company:** Fmr LLC
- **Location:** Smithfield, RI, United States (Remote available)
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Salary:** $107,000.0 - $216,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Amazon Web Services, Continuous Integration, IBM ILOG CPLEX Optimization Studio (CPLEX), Data Structures, Software Design Patterns, DevOps, Python (Programming Language), MATLAB, Object-Oriented Software Development, Backtesting, SciPy, Systems Architecture, Information Technology, Low Latency, Functional Programming, Restful APIs, Microservices
- **Published:** July 24, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.indeed.com/viewjob?jk=a05fecf7987bcbb9

## About the Role

* Minimum of 7 years of proven professional experience working in financial services (Asset Management experienced preferred)
 * Prior experience leveraging industry scale optimization libraries (Matlab Linear, Gurobi, Cplex, Axioma, Gurobi, or SciPy)
 * Experience with Python and micro-services / RESTful APIs
 * Proven ability to design highly scalable and low latency systems
 * Experience working on AWS cloud environment and working knowledge of CI/CD and DevOps
 * Strong experience in system architecture, design patterns and software engineering fundamentals such as OOP, functional programming, data modeling.
 * Advanced understanding of data structures
 * Demonstrated experience with portfolio construction and/or portfolio optimization is a plus
 * Proven ability to capture requirements and formulate plans by partnering with various stakeholders
 * Strong communication, interpersonal and relationship building skills to influence decisions and engage across Fidelity and at all levels of the organization
 * Bachelor's degree in a computational field such as Computer Science, Master's degree is preferred

## Description

We are seeking a Principal Quant Developer to join our Quantitative Research and Investments Technology (QRIT) team in Fidelity Asset Management Technology. This role will partner with the quant research and investments teams to design, build, enhance, and support a comprehensive portfolio optimization and back testing ecosystem. This individual will include hands on development collaborating with team of software engineers and quantitative developers.


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