About the Role
Join Optiver's team as a Machine Learning Research Engineer, focusing on a pivotal AI initiative. This role offers significant impact across ML infrastructure, training, and inference challenges to advance futures trading strategies.
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
Requirements
- 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
- 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++
Skills
- Deep learning
- PyTorch
- JAX
- TensorFlow
- Python
- XLA
- Flax
- GPU programming
- CUDA
- Triton
- Pallas
- Data science
- Machine learning
- C++
Experience Level
- PhD or equivalent industry experience
Education Level
- PhD
Salary/Compensations
- $200,000—$200,000 USD
Benefits
- Opportunity to work alongside best-in-class professionals from over 40 different countries
- 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, and sporting leagues
About the Company
- 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.
Equal Opportunity
- Optiver does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, physical or mental disability, or other legally protected characteristics.
