Applied ML Researcher — Live Trading Signals

Moreton Capital Partners; Ciudad de México; Presencial; MXN 900.000 - 1.500.000; Jornada completa

Ventajas ofrecidas por este puesto de trabajo

Relocation package to Mexico City

Health and life insurance

Year-end bonus

Generous paid time off

Competitive compensation

Descripción de la vacante

Moreton Capital Partners is seeking a Machine Learning Researcher to join our team. We are live trading across global commodity futures, supported by an investment process rooted in machine learning.

This role targets an applied ML specialist with several years of experience turning ideas into production signals. You will work directly with the CIO and the quant research team to ship models into live trading systems that impact portfolio returns.

Formación

• Several years of applied machine learning experience in industry or a production-oriented research environment.
• Strong Python skills and scientific computing stacks.
• Deep understanding of statistical learning and model validation.
• Experience with large datasets and experimental pipelines.
• Ability to move from theory to practical implementation.
• Intellectual curiosity and strong problem-solving mindset.

Responsabilidades

• Design predictive models for cross-sectional and time-series commodity returns.
• Develop features from price, weather, satellite, macro, and alternative datasets.
• Run walk-forward and out-of-sample experiments with realistic costs.
• Analyze information coefficients, turnover, drawdowns, and risk-adjusted returns.
• Design feature engineering frameworks and reusable research tooling.
• Document findings clearly and communicate results to portfolio managers.
• Contribute to improving research standards, reproducibility, and processes.
• Collaborate with engineers to deploy models into live trading systems.

Conocimientos

Python

Time-series modeling

Feature engineering

Model validation

Research mindset

Big data

Educación

PhD in ML or related field

Herramientas

LightGBM

XGBoost

scikit-learn

Pandas

NumPy

TensorFlow/PyTorch

Descripción del empleo

Moreton Capital Partners is seeking a Machine Learning Researcher to join our team. We are live trading across global commodity futures, supported by an investment process rooted in machine learning.

This role targets an applied ML specialist with several years of experience turning ideas into production signals. You will work directly with the CIO and the quant research team to ship models into live trading systems that impact portfolio returns.