Research Software Engineer - Finance (EP-SFT-2025-194-GRAP)

Are you a fluent in C++? Are you excited about bringing together particle physics and finance? Project HighLO  applies data analysis techniques from physics to financial markets, helping regulators and exchanges tackle challenges like fraud detection.

We are looking for a Research Software Engineer to turn our research into production-ready C++ algorithms and tools. ROOT  is a C++/Python framework developed at CERN and used worldwide in particle physics, and also in Project HighLO.
You will work as a member of two diverse and creative teams: CERN's ROOT team and the HighLO research collaboration.

Your responsibilities:

• Build solutions to analyse streamed data with C++ in real time.
• Work on C++ data structures in ROOT that are used in financial data analysis.
• Work with us on a ROOT-based framework for analysing limit order book data.
• Use your experience in data analysis,...