Selby Jennings · 2 weeks ago
Lead NLP Engineer
New York, NY
Full-time
Hybrid
Lead/Staff
$400K/yr - $800K/yrSelby Jennings is a leading technology-driven investment firm seeking a Lead NLP / Machine Learning Engineer to build event-driven trading signals from real-time text sources. The role involves owning the full lifecycle from research to deployment for low-latency trading strategies, working closely with senior stakeholders to shape AI-powered trading capabilities.
BankingHuman ResourcesEmploymentRecruiting
Hiring Manager
Connor O'Sullivan
Responsibilities
Lead research and development of NLP/ML models for real‑time signal generation
Work with large‑scale streaming text datasets from financial sources
Deploy models into a production trading environment
Collaborate with a small, elite team across engineering, data, and strategy
Innovate quickly in a highly technical, experiment‑driven culture
Qualification
Required
Lead research and development of NLP/ML models for real‑time signal generation
Work with large‑scale streaming text datasets from financial sources
Deploy models into a production trading environment
Collaborate with a small, elite team across engineering, data, and strategy
Innovate quickly in a highly technical, experiment‑driven culture
A hands‑on NLP or ML engineer with a strong applied research mindset
Excited to own projects end‑to‑end from ideation to deployment
Motivated by challenging problems at the intersection of AI and financial markets
Preferred
Onsite preferred, with some seasonal flexibility
Company
Selby Jennings
Global recruitment firm specialising in Banking
Founded in 2004
1001-5000 employees
Funding
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