Machine Learning Research Engineer, Optiver

Machine Learning Research Engineer, Optiver

Company Optiver
Job title Machine Learning Research Engineer
Job location Austin, Texas, US
Type Full Time

Responsibilities:

  • Conduct innovative research on deep learning for price forecasting
  • Build scalable and robust training and inference pipelines for deep learning
  • Dive into the 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 & Skills:

  • 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 the 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 the internals of deep-learning frameworks like PyTorch, JAX, TensorFlow, etc.
  • Experience with large-scale distributed training
  • Experience in programming in C++

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