Cambridge and Savernake Capital

Savernake Capital has carefully and deliberately chosen Cambridge as the long-term home of its engineering and research teams.

Our work sits at the intersection of systems engineering, mathematics, and applied research. Cambridge offers a unique concentration of talent in computer science, physics, engineering, and quantitative disciplines, alongside a culture that values depth, rigour, and long-term thinking.

More broadly, Cambridge sits at the heart of the UK’s innovation ecosystem. It has a long-standing reputation as a place where fundamental research is translated into real-world systems, and where technically curious minds are encouraged to explore difficult problems in depth. That environment closely mirrors how we build: carefully, rigorously, and with a focus on work that stands up over time.

Being office-based matters to us. Building and operating real-time trading systems requires close collaboration, fast feedback loops, and shared ownership of production systems. Many of the most important lessons in infrastructure engineering are learned side-by-side while diagnosing live issues, reviewing designs, and evolving systems together.

Cambridge allows us to:

• Build a cohesive, high-trust engineering culture

• Mentor early-career engineers effectively

• Iterate quickly on complex systems

• Retain institutional knowledge over many years