Machine Learning Performance Engineer

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Austin, TX
3-5 Years Experience
Fintech
The Role
Seeking a Machine Learning Performance Engineer to work on AI initiatives, focusing on Machine Learning infrastructure and trading strategies. Responsibilities include building scalable pipelines, enhancing deep learning frameworks, identifying performance bottlenecks, and collaborating with researchers.
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Optiver is a seeking a Machine Learning Performance 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.

Based in ‘The Domain’ neighborhood, Optiver’s Austin office serves as the firm’s innovation nucleus, with a strong focus on quantitative research, software and hardware engineering initiatives. With tech innovation an integral part of our core business, the booming city proved an ideal backdrop for our heavy investment into machine learning, research infrastructure and big data computing. What’s more, with world-class music, food and art scenes, as well as countless scenic outdoor activities, the quality of life for Austin Optiverians is second to none.

What you'll do:

  • Build scalable and robust training and inference pipelines for deep learning
  • Dive into internals of open-source deep learning frameworks and enhance their functionality
  • Identify and eliminate performance bottlenecks
  • Collaborate closely with researchers and other engineers
  • Develop an in-depth understanding of trading systems

What you’ll need: 

  • Expertise in internals of deep-learning frameworks like PyTorch, JAX, TensorFlow, etc.
  • Deep understanding of computer architecture
  • Experience in programming in C++ and Python

Nice to have:

  • Experience with JAX ecosystem (XLA, Flax, etc.)
  • Experience in programming for GPUs or other accelerators (CUDA, Triton, Pallas, etc.)
  • Linux system programming experience
  • Experience with large-scale distributed training
  • Contributions to open-source projects related to data science and machine learning

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.

Top Skills

C++
Jax
PyTorch
TensorFlow
The Company
Austin, TX
1,600 Employees
On-site Workplace
Year Founded: 1986

What We Do

Optiver’s story began over 30 years ago, when we started business as a single trader on the floor of Amsterdam’s options exchange. Today, we are at the forefront of trading and technology as a leading global electronic market maker, focused on pricing, execution and risk management.

Why Work With Us

People at Optiver love challenges, welcome collaboration, and strive to be better tomorrow than they are today. Improving the market is an extraordinary challenge that requires a carefully crafted approach. Optiver provides a collaborative working environment to tackle these challenges. In fact, it is this way of working that sets us apart.

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