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# Machine Learning Research Engineer

- **Company:** Optiver Us, Llc
- **Location:** New York, United States
- **Salary:** $200,000.0
- **Contract:** Permanent contract
- **Skills:** Artificial Intelligence, Algorithmic Trading, Big Data, C++ (Programming Language), Nvidia CUDA, Computer Programming, Distributed Computing Environment, Python (Programming Language), Machine Learning, Open Source Technology, Tensorflow, Graphics Processing Unit (GPU), Pytorch, Deep Learning
- **Published:** June 2, 2026
- **Apply:** https://www.dice.com/job-detail/3e536a45-e4ec-4a7d-baa6-8ff9133f6e23

## About the Role

* 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++

## Description

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.


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