We are helping a top tier quantitative hedge fund looking for best talent to build and own the deep learning engine behind the firm's alpha research. You will design the core pipelines, drive a meaningful share of the research agenda end-to-end, and act as a central point of deep learning expertise across the organization. It is a high-impact, high-autonomy role for a researcher who pairs strong applied modeling with genuine scientific rigor.
Responsibilities
- Design and build the firm's core deep learning pipelines for applied quantitative alpha research — from data preparation and distributed training through evaluation and production deployment.
- Own a significant part of the research agenda, running the full empirical loop: problem formulation, model design, training, validation, and performance attribution.
- Set the standard for research discipline in a low signal-to-noise domain — strict out-of-signal hygiene, leakage prevention, and honest benchmarking against simpler baselines.
- Serve as a go-to source of deep learning expertise: advise on architecture selection and training diagnostics, review model designs, and shape how models are evaluated and promoted.
- Build standardized training and inference interfaces and reusable components that let models flow smoothly across teams and systems.
Requirements
- A master's degree or above in computer science or related fields from a prestigious university
- Excellent programming skills, proficient in Pytorch/Tensorflow, capable of rapidly developing and implementing various cutting-edge deep learning models based on one of the frameworks. Improving and tunning models with innovative ideas. A solid foundation in C++ programming is required.
- Priority will be given to candidates who have won awards in competitions such as ACM/ICPC, NOIP/NOI, and those with outstanding performance in machine learning competitions like Kaggle.
- Candidates with publications in international conferences (including but not limited to NIPS, 1. Great People. We’re curious Self-motivated candidates are preferred. KDD, CVPR, ICML, ACL, AAAI, COLT, AISTATS, WWW, SIGIR, IJCAI) or journals in the fields of machine learning, data mining, and recommendation systems are preferred.
- Passion for the quantitative industry and a clear career development direction is essential.