Optiver · 3 days ago
Machine Learning Research Engineer
New York, United States
Full-time
Onsite
Senior Level
$200K/yr - $200K/yrOptiver is a tech-driven trading firm and leading global market maker, seeking a Machine Learning Research Engineer to join their team. This role focuses on innovative research and development of machine learning infrastructure to enhance trading strategies.
Financial ServicesFinTechMarket Research
Responsibilities
Conduct innovative research on deep learning for price forecasting
Build scalable and robust training and inference pipelines for deep learning
Dive into internals of open-source deep learning frameworks and enhance their functionality
Collaborate closely with researchers and other engineers
Develop an in-depth understanding of trading systems
Qualification
Required
PhD or equivalent industry experience in a field related to machine learning
Expertise in building deep-learning models in PyTorch, JAX, or TensorFlow
Experience in programming in Python
Experience in computationally intensive research on very large data sets
Preferred
Experience with JAX ecosystem (XLA, Flax, etc.)
Experience in programming for GPUs or other accelerators (CUDA, Triton, Pallas, etc.)
Contributions to open-source projects related to data science and machine learning
Strong publication record at conferences like NeurIPS, ICML, etc
Expertise in internals of deep-learning frameworks like PyTorch, JAX, TensorFlow, etc
Experience with large-scale distributed training
Experience in programming in C++
Benefits
Global profit-sharing pool and performance-based bonus structure
401(k) match up to 50%
Comprehensive health, mental, dental, vision, disability, and life coverage
25 paid vacation days alongside market holidays
Extensive office perks, including breakfast, lunch and snacks, regular social events, clubs, sporting leagues and more
Company
Optiver
Optiver is an international trading firm, headquartered in Amsterdam.
Founded in 1986
1001-5000 employees
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Funding
Current Stage
Late StageLeadership Team
Rutger Brinkhuis
CEO Optiver US
Charlie Whitmer
Chief People Officer
Recent News
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