Moreton Capital Partners is hiring a Quant Developer Intern - Systematic Commodities Hedge Fund

Moreton Capital Partners is hiring a Quant Developer Intern to build and maintain the foundational infrastructure for its systematic commodities hedge fund. In this role, you will work directly with the CIO and Head of Quant Research to take research ideas into a live trading environment with real capital.

What You'll Do

• Build and maintain data pipelines ingesting futures, options, and alternative datasets.
• Improve the backtesting framework including event-driven simulations, realistic slippage and cost modeling, walk-forward validation, and portfolio performance analysis.
• Support research tooling such as feature libraries, experiment tracking, and artifact storage.
• Set up machine learning cloud and local execution and optimization environments.
• Productionize signals into the live trading stack with robust CI/CD, monitoring, and version control.
• Develop dashboards and alerting for data quality, latency, and model drift.
• Collaborate with researchers to translate hypotheses into robust, testable experiments and enhance proposed processes computationally.

What We're Looking For

• Fluency in Python and SQL.
• Ability to write clean, testable code.
• Experience with data engineering using tools like Airflow, Snowflake, pandas, or polars.
• Prior exposure to systematic trading, backtesting, or market data pipelines.
• Familiarity with cloud environments (AWS), containers (Docker), and CI/CD practices.
• Self-starter with the ability to work autonomously in a lean, high-ownership environment.
• A Bachelor's degree in Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a computationally heavy field.

Nice to Have

• A minor in Finance.
• Exposure to commodities or macro markets.
• Experience with systematic medium-term investment strategies.
• Familiarity with ML Ops tools like MLflow or Weights & Biases, feature stores, or model monitoring.
• Front-end skills (TypeScript/React) to help build researcher dashboards.

Technical Stack

• Languages: Python, SQL, TypeScript
• Data & Orchestration: Airflow, Snowflake, pandas, polars
• Infrastructure: AWS, Docker, CI/CD
• ML & Tools: MLflow, Weights & Biases, React

Team & Environment

You will work directly with the CIO and Head of Quant Research, reporting to them both. This is a direct line to decision-making and a high-impact role within a lean team.

Benefits & Compensation

• Impact from day one: You will build mission-critical infrastructure for a fund beginning live trading this year for large institutional investors.
• Direct exposure: Work alongside the CIO and senior researchers, with a direct line to decision-making.
• Steep learning curve: Gain deep exposure to commodity markets, ML research workflows, and institutional-grade trading systems.

Moreton Capital Partners is an equal opportunity employer.