Machine Learning Researcher

The role

You will build deep learning models that power trading strategies using a computing cluster with tens of thousands of high-end GPUs. You will train models, architect systems, run trading strategies, and hire new colleagues.

What you will do

• Build deep learning models that power trading strategies
• Train models for the next generation of deep learning-based trading strategies
• Architect systems
• Run trading strategies
• Dive deep into market data
• Tune hyperparameters
• Debug distributed training performance
• Study how models trade in production
• Hire new colleagues
• Attend conferences and teach techniques to teammates

Required qualifications

• Practical experience working on empirical ML problems
• Ability to apply logical and mathematical thinking to all kinds of problems
• Intellectual curiosity and excitement about state-of-the-art research across many ML problem domains
• Fluency with a versatile set of models and tricks
• Hands-on coding skills in Python and your favorite ML framework
• An eagerness to ask questions, admit mistakes, and learn new things

About the company

Jane Street researchers, engineers, and traders sit a few feet away from each other and work together to train models, architect systems, and run trading strategies.