Machine Learning Research Engineer

Optiver is a seeking a Machine Learning Research Engineer to join our team, focusing on a pivotal AI initiative.  This role would offer the opportunity to have significant impact across Machine Learning infrastructure, training, and inference challenges to advance our futures trading strategies.

What you'll do:

• 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

What you’ll get:

You’ll join a culture of collaboration and excellence, surrounded by curious thinkers and creative problem-solvers. Motivated by a passion for continuous improvement, you’ll thrive in a supportive, high-performing environment alongside talented colleagues, collectively tackling some of the toughest challenges in the financial markets.

In addition, you’ll receive:

• The opportunity to work alongside best-in-class professionals from over 40 different countries
• A highly competitive compensation package
• 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

Who you are: 

• 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

Nice to have:

• 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++

Who we are:

Optiver is a tech-driven trading firm and leading global market maker. As one of the oldest market making institutions, we are a trusted partner of 70+ exchanges across the globe. Our mission is to constantly improve the market by injecting liquidity, providing accurate pricing, increasing transparency and acting as a stabilizing force no matter the market conditions. With a focus on continuous improvement, we participate in the safeguarding of healthy and efficient markets for everyone who participates.

Diversity statement

Optiver is committed to diversity and inclusion.