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AI/ML Research Intern

Global principal trading firm; parent of Cumberland (crypto market maker).

Chicago, Illinois, USA
About DRW

DRW (drw.com) is a Chicago-based global principal trading firm across asset classes; its crypto arm is Cumberland, a leading digital-asset market maker.

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About the Role

As an AI/ML Research Intern, you will collaborate with technologists, quantitative researchers, and traders to solve challenging AI and machine learning problems. Projects may include forecasting, large language models, large-scale deep learning, data pipelines, and telemetry analysis. The internship provides meaningful projects, mentorship, training, and educational and team-building activities.

Requirements

  • Pursuing a master's or PhD degree in a technical discipline focused on machine learning, deep learning, or NLP, graduating between December 2027 and June 2028.
  • Expertise in deep learning, machine learning, and statistics.
  • Demonstrated experience training large models.
  • Knowledge of TensorFlow, PyTorch, Keras, and scikit-learn.
  • Experience programming in Python.
  • Experience with scripting.
  • Strong communication skills.
  • Positive, team-oriented attitude.
  • Software best practices and relevant publications are a plus.

Responsibilities

  • Design and implement large-scale deep learning models for computer vision, reinforcement learning, graph neural networks, or similar domains.
  • Improve data and data pipelines.
  • Perform time series forecasting.
  • Apply deep learning methods to telemetry data.

Benefits

  • Fully furnished apartments located close to the office.
  • Mentorship program.
  • Educational, social, and team-building activities.
  • Options course training.
  • Meaningful project experience and professional development.