Machine Learning Researcher
Machine Learning Researcher
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Job Description
IMC Trading is seeking a Machine Learning Researcher with proven experience applying stateoftheart machine learning to solve challenging trading problems. This role will drive the development of a centralized ML environment to be used across all areas of trading at IMC. The ideal candidate will have experience working with other researchers traders and engineers to build and continuously improve a research platform to drive innovation via ML. We firmly believe that success for researchdriven efforts lies in bringing together skills in ML statistics and trading intuition as well as a problemsolving mindset and pragmatism. This is an opportunity to dive deep into feature engineering and focus on applying a wide range of ML models as well as to perform research on building custom models.
Your Core Responsibilities:
- Lead the design development and deployment of machine learning models to enhance trading performance across various asset classes
- Research test and prototype new algorithmic ideas; deploy advanced ML techniques applicable to market prediction signal generation and portfolio optimization
- Collaborate with quantitative traders researchers and developers to translate market insights into datadriven models and features
- Oversee data acquisition preprocessing and feature engineering for structured and unstructured data sources
- Ensure robust backtesting validation and model interpretability practices
- Mentor junior researchers and contribute to a culture of research excellence and experimentation
- Drive strategic decisions on model architecture experimentation pipelines and infrastructure for scalable research
- Play critical role in implementing new trading ideas into production
- Combine knowledge of systems mathematical techniques and trading to identify system improvements
Your Skills and Experience:
- PhD or Masters in Engineering Math Statistics Computer Science or related quantitative field
- 4 years of experience building applied ML models; previous experience in trading environment preferred
- Proven expertise in developing and deploying predictive models in highfrequency or lowlatency environments
- Strong programming skills in Python; proficiency in ML libraries such as PyTorch TensorFlow and/or highperformance libraries like Jax
- Experience working with financial data alpha generation market microstructure and/or alternative datasets.
- Strong understanding of theoretical foundations of ML algorithms
- Deep understanding of time series modeling signal processing and model evaluation
- Prior people management experience preferred
- Creative thinking skills and drive to solve challenging problems
- Ability and desire to work in a collaborative team environment
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills
The Base Salary range for the role is included below. Base salary is only one component of total compensation; all fulltime permanent positions are eligible for a discretionary bonus and benefits including paid leave and visit Benefits US IMC Trading for more comprehensive information.
About Us
IMC is a global trading firm powered by a cuttingedge research environment and a worldclass technology backbone. Since 1989 weve been a stabilizing force in financial markets providing essential liquidity upon which market participants depend. Across our offices in the US Europe Asia Pacific and India our talented quant researchers engineers traders and business operations professionals are united by our uniquely collaborative highperformance culture and our commitment to giving back. From entering dynamic new markets to embracing disruptive technologies and from developing an innovative research environment to diversifying our trading strategies we dare to continuously innovate and collaborate to succeed.
Employment Type
Full Time
