Software Engineer - Machine Learning Frameworks

IMC Trading; Council of the City of Sydney; On-site; AUD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

IMC Trading is seeking a software engineer to advance our Machine Learning Frameworks stack in Sydney. You will help optimize compilers, runtimes, and the orchestration layer that runs computation across heterogeneous hardware, spanning C++, Rust, Python, MLIR, and CUDA.

The role blends research iteration speed with production performance while collaborating across traders and engineers. You will thrive in a fast-paced, research-driven environment, translating trader needs into robust

Qualifications

• You can move between languages without it slowing you down.
• You like understanding what a language compiles down to and how it runs on hardware.
• You're comfortable being handed an unfamiliar part of the stack and working it out.
• You like working with stakeholders across the business and you're good at figuring out what someone actually needs, not just what they asked for.

Responsibilities

• The work is broad, with both high-level orchestration and low-level hardware considerations.
• You will help optimize the compute stack across C++, Rust, Python, MLIR and CUDA to improve performance.

Skills

Language interoperability

Compiler basics

Stakeholder communication

Heterogeneous hardware

Job description

The Machine Learning Frameworks team exists for two reasons: making the research iteration loop as fast and frictionless as possible, and making production run as fast as the hardware allows. Both matter, and figuring out how to do both at once is most of what makes the work fun.

Concretely, we build optimisers, code generators, runtime libraries, and the orchestration layer that runs computation across heterogeneous hardware. The stack spans C++, Rust, Python, MLIR, and CUDA. You don\'t need to know all of these things but should be excited about working in this space.

The work is broad. Some of it is high-level, looking at the whole compute pipeline, orchestrating the system and creating a cohesive product. Some of it is in the details, getting into hardware behaviour, dissecting compute graphs, squeezing the last bit of performance out of the hot path. Our job is managing the whole stack, top to bottom.

About You

• You can move between languages without it slowing you down. The right tool matters more to you than your favourite one
• You like understanding what a language compiles down to and how it runs on hardware.
• \u2018You\'re comfortable being handed an unfamiliar part of the stack and working it out.
• You like working with stakeholders across the business and you\u2019re good at figuring out what someone actually needs, not just what they asked for

What You Don\'t Need

A finance background. Every language we touch. A particular set of years in any particular role. We hire engineers who like to solve the problems our traders face - we\'ll teach you the context on the ground

About Us

IMC is a global trading firm powered by a cutting-edge research environment and a world-class technology backbone. Since 1989, we\u2019ve been a stabilizing force in financial markets, providing essential liquidity upon which market participants depend. Across our offices in the US, Europe, Asia Pacific, and India, our talented quant researchers, engineers, traders, and business operations professionals are united by our uniquely collaborative, high-performance culture, and our commitment to giving back. From entering dynamic new markets to embracing disruptive technologies, and from developing an innovative research environment to diversifying our trading strategies, we dare to continuously innovate and collaborate to succeed.