Senior ML Research Engineer - Scalable AI Infrastructure

Sanderson-Ikas; Hong Kong; On-site; HKD 900,000 - 1,200,000; Full time

Job summary

Sanderson-Ikas is partnering with a leading proprietary trading and HFT firm to hire a Senior Research Engineer. You will design and evolve scalable ML research frameworks, build data ingestion and management infra, and develop tooling for model optimization and deployment in a real-time environment.

You’ll collaborate with quantitative researchers to test hypotheses, generate data-driven trading signals, and enhance research workflows, pipelines, and platform reliability using Python, PyTorch,

Qualifications

• Master’s or PhD in Computer Science, ML, statistics, mathematics, physics, or a highly quantitative field.
• 8+ years of experience in Machine Learning Engineering, Research Engineering, MLOps, AI infrastructure, or similar roles.
• Strong mathematical and statistical foundations with data-driven modeling experience.
• Excellent Python programming; hands-on with PyTorch, NumPy, Pandas, Polars, Ray, or equivalent ML/distributed frameworks.
• Experience designing end-to-end ML pipelines: preprocessing, training, deployment, monitoring.
• Experience building scalable infrastructure for experimentations and model lifecycle in production.
• Familiar with version control, CI/CD, Docker, Kubernetes, and cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP).

Responsibilities

• Design and evolve a scalable ML research framework for model development lifecycle from experiment to production deployment.
• Build reusable infrastructure to ingest, transform, and manage large, diverse datasets.
• Develop tooling for model optimization, supervised workflows, backtesting, experimentation, and performance analysis.
• Collaborate with quantitative researchers to test hypotheses and generate data-driven trading signals for production systems.
• Improve scalability, reliability, and performance of research workflows, distributed training and deployment pipelines.
• Contribute to engineering best practices across testing, CI/CD, observability, and platform reliability.

Skills

Python programming

Education

Master's or PhD in Computer Science/ML/Statistics

Tools

PyTorch

NumPy

Pandas

Polars

Ray

Docker

Kubernetes

AWS

Azure

GCP

Job description

Sanderson-Ikas is partnering with a leading proprietary trading and HFT firm to hire a Senior Research Engineer. You will design and evolve scalable ML research frameworks, build data ingestion and management infra, and develop tooling for model optimization and deployment in a real-time environment.

You’ll collaborate with quantitative researchers to test hypotheses, generate data-driven trading signals, and enhance research workflows, pipelines, and platform reliability using Python, PyTorch,