PhD Investment & Strategy Associate

Qube Research & Technologies (QRT) is a global quantitative and systematic investment manager, operating in all liquid asset classes across the world. We are a technology- and data-driven group implementing a scientific approach to investing. Combining data, research, technology, and trading expertise has shaped our collaborative mindset, which enables us to solve the most complex challenges. QRT’s culture of innovation continuously drives our ambition to deliver high-quality returns for our investors. This role sits at the intersection of distributed systems, platform engineering, and high-performance computing. You will build and operate the foundational services that quantitative researchers rely on every day, including workload orchestration, scheduling, security, observability, and platform tooling. Your Future Role Within QRT: * Design, build, and operate distributed services that manage compute workloads and data access across large-scale infrastructure * Develop platform APIs and tooling that improve the productivity of quantitative researchers * Improve the reliability, scalability, and performance of compute-intensive research workflows * Build solutions for scheduling, resource management, observability, and security * Partner closely with researchers and infrastructure teams to translate complex requirements into scalable platform capabilities * Take ownership of systems end-to-end, from design and implementation through production operation Your Present Skill Set: * Bachelor's, Master's, or PhD degree in Computer Science or a related field, or equivalent practical experience * 5+ years of experience building and operating large-scale distributed systems in production environments * Strong proficiency in C++, Java, Rust, Go, or other systems programming languages * Deep understanding of distributed systems, concurrency, performance optimization, reliability, and fault tolerance * Experience designing and operating services, platforms, or infrastructure used by other engineers Nice to have: * Experience with internal developer platforms, cloud infrastructure, orchestration systems, or HPC environments * Familiarity with GPU-accelerated workloads and modern ML frameworks such as PyTorch or TensorFlow * Experience supporting researchers, data scientists, or other highly technical users * Exposure to quantitative finance or large-scale data-intensive environments   QRT is an equal opportunity employer. We welcome diversity as essential to our success. QRT empowers employees to work openly and respectfully to achieve collective success. In addition to professional achievement, we are offering initiatives and programs to enable employees achieve a healthy work-life balance.

About Teads Teads is a leading omnichannel advertising platform focused on driving outcomes for brand and performance advertisers across screens. With a focus on meaningful business outcomes for branding and performance objectives, Teads drives value by leveraging predictive AI technology to connect quality media, beautiful brand creative, and context-driven addressability and measurement. Teads is directly partnered with more than 10,000 publishers and 20,000 advertisers globally. The company is headquartered in New York, New York with a global team of around 1,700 people in 30+ countries. For more information, visit www.teads.com. [https://www.teads.com] OUR MAIN ENGINEERING CHALLENGES AT TEADS * Build efficient and easy-to-use web products used by thousands of users working for the world’s most premium publishers, advertisers, and agencies. * Rich and diverse tech stack and system architecture to optimize for performance, scalability, resiliency, and cost efficiency. We use mostly Scala and TypeScript, among others. * Working in a very high-traffic environment (2.2 billion users per month, 100 billion events per day) with low latency and high availability constraints (2 million requests per second, responses in less than 150 milliseconds). * Management of large datasets with milliseconds order of magnitude access time, to compute in a near real-time complex auction resolution algorithm (18 million predictions per second). * A fast-changing environment where we continuously collaborate with Product teams and constantly adapt our Cloud infrastructure for new features and Products. * Bring a wide diversity of profiles to the same level of quality and knowledge * Work in an international environment with offices located in Israel, Slovenia and France. ABOUT THE OPPORTUNITY  We are looking for a Data Scientist to join a team of applied research. The AI department currently consists of 50 people who are a mix of data scientists, machine learning and backend engineers. The department provides technologies that power outcomes of campaigns with a total yearly turn over of $1.7B.  Runs large scale prediction and control systems for ad delivery, dealing with millions of live ads, doing more than a billion predictions per second based on large on-line trained models being updated every 5 minutes. WHAT WILL YOU DO? As a Data Scientist, your mission will be to: * Innovate at Scale: Stay at the forefront of AdTech research, focusing on CTR prediction, online learning regimes, and high-dimensional embeddings. * Bridge Research & Engineering: Collaborate with cross-functional teams to identify research gaps and translate them into production-ready features. * Own the Lifecycle: Lead the end-to-end process—from reading the latest ArXiv papers to A/B testing and monitoring model performance in a live environment. * Experiment Freely: Dedicate time to "deep-work" sessions, testing unconventional hypotheses and new algorithmic approaches. WHAT WILL YOU BRING TO THE TEAM? * The Foundation: An advanced degree (MSc/PhD) in a quantitative field or equivalent "in-the-trenches" industry experience. * The Toolkit: 4–5 years of experience in applied research, specifically deploying ML algorithms into high-throughput online environments. * The Hybrid Edge: Strong software engineering fundamentals; you don’t just design models, you understand how they fit into the code stack. * Critical Thinking: The ability to dismantle a scientific paper, critique its methodology, and implement its core findings effectively. * Communication: A knack for making the complex simple. You can explain a transformer-based ranking system to a peer or a product manager with equal clarity. Please submit your CV in English. WE CARE ABOUT YOU  * Career Development: Continuous investment in our employees’ skills: in-house and external training, internal mobility … * Life Balance: A well-balanced work-life for our employees is one of our top priorities: 22 days off per year, hybrid work (3 days per week in the office) * Wellness: Prioritizing employee well-being through premium work equipment, enjoyable work environment (work-life balance, team building events, summits), remote work subsidy, promoting Diversity & Inclusion with internal & external initiatives, etc.  #LI-Hybrid Life at Teads At Teads, we don’t just offer new roles - we blend creativity, technology, and data to shape the future of media. You’ll work with smart humans, meaningful brands, and cool tools, all while helping redefine how advertising works in a world that demands more transparency, better insights, and smarter strategies. As a Teadster, you’ll play a critical role in shaping our future success in the region. Here’s why Teads stands out: * We've merged two open internet category leaders—Outbrain and Teads—to create the ‘new’ Teads, a unified omnichannel platform that drives results from branding to performance across all screens, including CTV, mobile, and web. * As part of our team, you’ll thrive in a collaborative and forward-thinking environment that fosters innovation, creative problem-solving, and continuous learning. * Teads is committed to your success, offering the support, tools, and development opportunities you need to excel in your role. Our company culture is welcoming, dynamic, diverse, global, and built on top performance. Teads is an equal employment opportunity employer and committed to diversity and inclusion at all stages of recruitment and employment. Our team is made up of individuals who are approachable, resourceful, passionate, and proactive. We foster a sense of belonging through our Employee Resource Groups – employee-led groups in which we debate topics and drive change: environmental, women empowerment, charitable initiatives to diversity, equity, and inclusion, you’ll be able to share your passions with likeminded people.