Jobs
>
Chicago

    Machine Learning Research Engineer - Chicago, United States - Optiver

    Default job background
    Full time
    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.

    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.

    Optiver Chicago's culture parallels the energetic city we're immersed in. Home to the Chicago Board of Trade, Chicago Board Options Exchange, and Chicago Mercantile Exchange, Chicago has established itself as the trading capital of the US. Active on leading US exchanges, Optiver's Chicago office trades a wide range of products from listed derivatives to cash equities, ETFs, bonds and foreign exchange.

    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 need:

    • 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++

    What you'll get:

    • Work alongside best-in-class professionals from over 40 different countries.
    • Performance based bonus structure that is unmatched anywhere in the industry. We combine our profits across desks, teams and offices into a global profit pool fostering a truly collaborative environment to work in.
    • Ownership over initiatives that directly solve business problems.

    Alongside this you will get great other benefits such as 25 paid vacation days and market holidays, fully paid health insurance, daily breakfast and lunch, training opportunities, 401(k) match up to 50% and charitable match opportunities, regular social events and clubs, and many more.

    At Optiver, we are committed to creating a diverse and inclusive environment of mutual respect. Optiver recruits, employs, trains, compensates and promotes regardless of race, religion, color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, physical or mental disability, or other legally protected characteristics.


  • Durlston Partners

    Research Engineer

    5 days ago


    Durlston Partners Chicago, United States

    Research Engineer - Algo Trading Fund - $750k · Our client, an Algorithmic Trading Fund is seeking a Research Engineer to take an instrumental role in enhancing their research platforms, focusing on advanced trading simulations, robust numerical computation, and innovative algor ...

  • Selby Jennings

    Research Engineer

    3 days ago


    Selby Jennings Chicago, United States

    Our client is a top of the industry hedge fund based out of Chicago that is looking for an early career Quantitative Research Engineer. This role directly interacts with the head of the Research Group developing user friendly portfolio construction analytics mainly using Python a ...

  • Durlston Partners

    Research Engineer

    21 hours ago


    Durlston Partners Chicago, United States

    Research Engineer - Algo Trading Fund - $750k · In order to make an application, simply read through the following job description and make sure to attach relevant documents. · Our client, an Algorithmic Trading Fund is seeking a Research Engineer to take an instrumental role i ...

  • Durlston Partners

    Research Engineer

    1 week ago


    Durlston Partners Chicago, United States

    Research Engineer - Algo Trading Fund - $750k · Our client, an Algorithmic Trading Fund is seeking a Research Engineer to take an instrumental role in enhancing their research platforms, focusing on advanced trading simulations, robust numerical computation, and innovative algor ...

  • Aquatic Capital Management

    Research Engineer

    5 days ago


    Aquatic Capital Management Chicago, United States

    At Aquatic, we are actively recruiting for a Research Engineer. In this role, you will partner with the Quantitative Research team to define priorities and deliver custom software solutions. · RoleDetails · Collaborate with senior researchers and technologists to investigate no ...

  • Selby Jennings

    Research Engineer

    1 day ago


    Selby Jennings Chicago, United States

    Our client is a top of the industry hedge fund based out of Chicago that is looking for an early career Quantitative Research Engineer. This role directly interacts with the head of the Research Group developing user friendly portfolio construction analytics mainly using Python a ...


  • Jump Trading Chicago, United States

    Jump Trading Group is committed to world class research. We empower exceptional talents in Mathematics, Physics, and Computer Science to seek scientific boundaries, push through them, and apply cutting edge research to global financial markets. Our culture is unique. Constant inn ...


  • Abs Data Chicago, United States

    Job title: · Quantitative Research Engineer · Company: · Northwestern Medicine · Job description : Important Update: At Northwestern Medicine safety is always a top priority. In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, Northwestern Medicine has moved to a more virtual recruitment p ...


  • Selby Jennings Chicago, United States

    Your Responsibilities: · Engage in groundbreaking research in deep learning for price forecasting. · Construct scalable and resilient training and inference pipelines for deep learning. · Delve into the inner workings of open-source deep learning frameworks to improve their funct ...


  • Selby Jennings Chicago, IL, United States

    Your Responsibilities: · Engage in groundbreaking research in deep learning for price forecasting. · Construct scalable and resilient training and inference pipelines for deep learning. · Delve into the inner workings of open-source deep learning frameworks to improve their fu ...


  • Optiver Chicago, IL, United States

    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 trad ...


  • Abs Data Chicago, United States

    Job title: · Quantitative Research Engineer · Company: · Northwestern Medicine · Job description : Important Update: At Northwestern Medicine safety is always a top priority. In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, Northwestern Medicine has moved to a more virtual recruitment p ...


  • Chicago Metropolitan Agen Chicago, United States

    Multi-modal corridor plans · - Congestion management plans · - Transportation systems analysis · - Prioritization of capital investments · - Evaluation of federal obligations and progress toward project implementation · - Tracking federal transportation performance measures · **D ...

  • Shirley Ryan AbilityLab

    Research Assistant

    6 days ago


    Shirley Ryan AbilityLab Chicago, United States

    By joining our team, you'll be part of our life-changing Mission and Vision. You'll work in a truly inclusive environment where diversity and equity are championed through words and actions. You'll contribute to an innovative culture that is second to none, one that embraces curi ...

  • bp

    UX Research Lead

    13 hours ago


    bp Chicago, United States

    Job summary · **Entity**: · Innovation & Engineering · **Job Family Group**: · IT&S Group · We are looking for a UX Research Lead to join us as part of bp's Digital Customer & Markets business and supported by bp's Human Experience Design discipline (bphxd). You are someone who i ...


  • Comity Chicago, United States

    **Why we exist**: · We're on a mission to improve the reliability, transparency, and efficiency of our energy systems, fostering a future with sustainable and abundant energy. To accomplish our aims, we're leveraging state of the art statistical learning and convex optimization m ...


  • LMG Staffing Solutions Chicago, United States

    An **SEO Content Strategist** at Logical Media Group will be responsible for various digital marketing activities, primarily focused on creating and developing strategy for copy with Search Engine Optimization (SEO) best practices in mind in order to boost visibility of client ma ...


  • Citadel Enterprise Americas Chicago, United States

    **Job Description**: · Your Objectives · - Conceptualize valuation strategies, develop, and continuously improve upon mathematical models and help translate algorithms into code · - Back test and implement trading models and signals in a live trading environment · - Use unconvent ...

  • Bayer

    Head of UX Design

    3 days ago


    Bayer Chicago, United States

    **Head of UX Design** · **Location**: St. Louis, MO and Chicago, IL · At Bayer Digital Farming Solutions (DFS) we are visionaries, driven to solve the world's toughest challenges and striving for a world where 'Health for all Hunger for none' is no longer a dream, but a real poss ...

  • Influit Energy

    Material Scientist

    1 day ago


    Influit Energy Chicago, United States

    Job Summary: · **Responsibilities**: · 2. Conduct experiments and analyses to investigate the properties, performance, and durability of materials under various operating conditions. · 3. Synthesize and fabricate materials using advanced techniques such as chemical deposition, so ...