Senior Research Engineer
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Flow Traders is a global technology-enabled multi-asset liquidity provider and market maker.
Amsterdam, Netherlands
About Flow Traders
Flow Traders provides continuous on-exchange and off-exchange liquidity across exchange-traded products, fixed income, FX, commodities, and digital assets using proprietary trading technology. Its digital-assets business, active since 2017, includes crypto ETP market making, OTC trading, liquidity provision, and DeFi connectivity.
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Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
Lead development of a trading model research framework, conduct machine learning research for production trading models, expand the framework for data-driven systematic workflows, and collaborate with Quantitative Researchers.
Requirements
- Advanced degree (Master's or PhD) in Machine Learning, Statistics, Physics, Computer Science, or a similar field.
- 8+ years of hands-on experience in MLOps, Research Engineering, or ML Research.
- Strong background in mathematics and statistics.
- Strong proficiency in Python and experience with NumPy, PyTorch, Polars, pandas, and Ray.
- Experience designing and implementing end-to-end machine learning pipelines covering data preprocessing, model training, deployment, and monitoring.
- Experience with modern software development practices and tools such as Agile, version control, automated testing, CI/CD, and observability.
- Understanding of cloud platforms such as AWS, Azure, and GCP, plus containerization technologies such as Docker and Kubernetes.
Responsibilities
- Lead development and global rollout of the research framework for defining and training models through supervised learning, backtesting, and other optimization procedures.
- Integrate the research framework with the platform for deploying and running models in production.
- Partner with Quantitative Researchers to conduct research.
- Test hypotheses and tune or develop data-driven systematic trading strategies and alpha signals.