ML Researcher for Quantitative Trading & AI Signals

eFinancialCareers; Greater London; On-site; GBP 400,000 - 750,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Shape ML direction

Proprietary datasets

Research freedom

Conferences

Compensation package

Work-life balance

Job summary

eFinancialCareers is seeking a talented ML specialist to join its quantitative research and trading technology teams in London. You will build and test models on large market data, extract signals, and develop trading strategies with a cross-asset scope.

You will work at the intersection of research, trading and software engineering, balancing cutting-edge experimentation with pragmatic, commercially useful solutions, in a highly collaborative environment.

Qualifications

• Deep ML expertise from applied or academic environment.
• Strong programming and quantitative problem-solving skills.
• Experience analysing large datasets and building/testing ML models.
• Broad understanding of modern ML techniques and model architectures.
• Ability to balance cutting-edge research with pragmatic, commercially useful solutions.
• Collaborative nature with excellent communication skills.
• Trading or financial markets experience is not required.

Responsibilities

• Use ML to extract signals and insights from vast market datasets, analyze data, build and test models and develop trading strategies.
• Work at the intersection of quantitative research, trading and software engineering; time may be split between alpha generation and ML research.
• Collaborate across teams to maximise PnL and share insights.
• Explore how ML/AI can improve research, engineering and operations across the business.
• Maintain freedom to experiment with model architectures, feature transformations and hyperparameters, while making pragmatic decisions about approaches.

Skills

Deep ML

Programming

Quantitative problem-solving

Big data analysis

ML architectures

Collaboration & communication

Markets experience not required

Job description

eFinancialCareers is seeking a talented ML specialist to join its quantitative research and trading technology teams in London. You will build and test models on large market data, extract signals, and develop trading strategies with a cross-asset scope.

You will work at the intersection of research, trading and software engineering, balancing cutting-edge experimentation with pragmatic, commercially useful solutions, in a highly collaborative environment.