AI Lab - Research
Optiver is a global technology- and research-driven proprietary trading firm and market maker providing liquidity across financial markets, including through an active 24/7 Digital Assets desk.
About Optiver
Founded in Amsterdam in 1986, Optiver uses its own capital, quantitative research and proprietary technology to continuously quote, price and trade financial instruments across global markets. Its activities include listed derivatives, cash equities, ETFs, bonds, foreign currencies and digital assets; its Digital Assets desk operates crypto options market-making strategies across major venues with follow-the-sun coverage.
Skills
Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You will design, train, and deploy machine-learning models for production trading systems. You will formulate hypotheses, run rigorous experiments, translate research into implementations, analyze financial datasets, train models using GPU and distributed computing, and build automated research workflows.
Requirements
- Machine learning, statistics, optimization, and experimental design knowledge
- Independent machine-learning research experience
- Knowledge of deep learning architectures including transformers, foundation models, sequence models, or state-space models
- Experience developing and training models
- Python
- PyTorch or JAX
- Experience training and evaluating models in GPU-based computing environments
Responsibilities
- Design, develop, and train machine-learning models and methods for production trading systems
- Research machine-learning approaches for quantitative and sequential modeling problems
- Formulate hypotheses and design experiments and evaluation frameworks
- Translate research and theoretical ideas into implementations
- Apply machine learning to financial datasets
- Train and evaluate models at scale
- Build and use agentic and automated research workflows
Benefits
- 401(k) match up to 50%
- Health, mental health, dental, vision, disability, and life coverage
- 25 paid vacation days
- Market holidays
- Office breakfast, lunch, and snacks
- Regular social events, clubs, and sports leagues