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# Machine Learning Research Engineer - Hong Kong & London- Global Trading

- **Company:** Machine Learning
- **Location:** London, UK
- **Experience:** Expert
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Distributed Systems, Machine Learning, Open Source Technology, Azure Machine Learning, Software Engineering, Software Systems, Information Technology, Machine Learning Operations
- **Published:** September 17, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.reed.co.uk/jobs/machine-learning-research-engineer-hong-kong-london-global-trading/57353317

## About the Role

* 5+ years of commercial experience
 * Software engineering background with deep experience in ML
 * Top 50 global university degree in Computer Science/ AI (or a related field)
 * Large-scale distributed systems
 * Note: no previous finance experience required

## Description

World-famous, global trading firm with offices in New York, London and Hong Kong. This firm trades a wide range of financial products including ETFs, Equities, Futures, Commodities, Options, Bonds, Currencies. Billions of dollars' worth of transactions flow through their systems every day and whilst their systems are large, their teams are not, which provides an environment to make a huge impact., Machine Learning is a critical pillar of this business and in this role, you will build the infrastructure that makes it all possible. You will develop libraries to automate ML workflows, dig into the internals of open-source ML tools and help drive the direction of an ML platform that is used daily by traders and researchers across the whole company. You must be an accomplished Software Engineer with deep experience in machine learning techniques and the software systems that power them.


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