PhD Sourcing Specialist

As a PhD Sourcing Specialist you will be focused on mapping the research talent landscape building relationships with academics before they enter the job market creating programs that strengthen IMCs presence in research communities assessing candidates against our technical and cultural standards and partnering with recruiters by delivering strong pipelines.

Your Core Responsibilities

Talent Landscape & Market Intelligence

• Map the PhD and postdoc talent landscape across the technical disciplines relevant to IMCs business understanding which programs labs and research communities are producing the talent that matters to us
• Track competitive hiring trends fellowship programs and academic community dynamics to keep IMCs strategy current and proactive
• Serve as an internal expert on the research talent market regularly sharing insights with recruiting leadership and business stakeholders

Attraction & Community Building

• Develop and maintain relationships with faculty advisors lab leads and student researchers at target institutions building IMCs presence and credibility in academic communities over time
• Represent IMC at key academic conferences and research events (NeurIPS ICML ICLR and others) with a candidate-facing focus: building connections identifying talent and deepening relationships not managing logistics
• Partner with our APAC and European recruiting teams on shared talent pools ensuring a coordinated global approach to PhD-level attraction

Programs & Initiatives

• Own IMCs PhD-focused programs end-to-end: our PhD Fellowship conference travel grants and lab partnership initiatives from strategy and design through execution and iteration
• Identify gaps in our current PhD engagement approach and develop new initiatives that strengthen our position with research communities
• Build and maintain a strong alumni and fellow network cultivating ongoing relationships that generate referrals advocacy and re-engagement over time

Pipeline Development

• Source and pipeline PhD candidates across IMCs technical hiring areas partnering with teams across the business as PhD recruitment continues to grow in scope and demand
• Develop and execute creative outreach strategies direct engagement conference follow-up research community participation to identify high-potential candidates at all career stages: PhD students postdocs and selectively experienced researchers
• Hand off qualified engaged candidates to recruiters with context relationships and momentum already built

Your Skills and Experience

• Bachelors degree; 47 years of experience in university recruiting talent strategy research partnerships or academic engagement programs ideally within a technical quantitative or research-driven environment
• Strong understanding of AI/ML research ecosystems leading research labs academic conferences and influential advisors
• Demonstrated ability to build authentic long-term relationships within academic and research communities
• Experience identifying and engaging talent through channels such as arXiv Hugging Face GitHub Discord Twitter/X and other research and developer communities
• Proven ability to develop and execute sourcing programs or strategic initiatives using data feedback and market insights
• Collaborative approach with experience partnering closely with recruiters hiring managers and regional stakeholders in fast-paced environments
• Strong communication organizational and stakeholder management skills with a high degree of ownership and sound judgment

Please note that immigration sponsorship is not offered for this specific opening.

About Us

IMC is a global trading firm powered by a cutting-edge research environment and a world-class 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 high-performance 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.