IMC Trading

Financial Services

MachineLearningResearchLead

$250–300k Chicago, United States
The Brief

“Machine Learning Research Lead at IMC Trading. Skills: Machine Learning, Statistics, trading intuition. Lead the design, development, and deployment of machine learning models. Research, test and prototype new algorithmic deploy advanced ML techniques”

What You'll Achieve.

enhance trading performance; market prediction; signal generation; portfolio optimization

Industry & Context.

Financial Services
Problems you'll solve

problem-solving mindset

What They're Looking For.

Must Have

4+ years of experience building applied ML, PhD or Master’s in Engineering, Math, Statistics, Computer Science, or related quantitative field, programming skills in proficiency in ML libraries such as PyTorch, TensorFlow, and/or high-performance libraries like Jax, understanding of theoretical foundations of state-of-the-art ML models

Nice to Have

previous experience in trading environment, Prior people management experience, developing and deploying predictive models in low-latency environments

What You'll Do.

and deployment of machine learning models

test and prototype new algorithmic deploy advanced ML techniques

Collaborate with quantitative traders

researchers and developers

Oversee data acquisition

and feature engineering

Mentor junior researchers

Drive strategic decisions on model architecture

experimentation pipelines

How You'll Work.

Team & Collaboration

working with other researchers, traders, and engineers; Collaborate with quantitative traders, researchers and developers; work in a collaborative team environment

Communication Scope

Excellent written and verbal communication skills

Free ATS check

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