Early-Career Deep Learning Researcher

ittihad medical centre; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 270,000 - 330,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Discretionary bonus

Paid leave

Insurance

Job summary

IMC Trading is seeking Deep Learning Researchers to develop state-of-the-art models for financial markets. You will collaborate with senior researchers from concept to deployment, tackling transformers, representation learning, and multimodal data in large-scale AI systems.

The ideal candidate holds a PhD, Masters, or Bachelor's in a quantitative field and has hands-on DL/ML experience with PyTorch, TensorFlow, or JAX.

Qualifications

• Strong foundation in modern AI and ML research, gained through graduate study or internships.
• PhD, Masters, or Bachelor's degree in CS/ML/AI/Math/Statistics/Engineering or related field.

Responsibilities

• Build and improve deep learning models to enhance trading performance across asset classes.
• Contribute to research in representation learning, transformers, foundation models, generative AI, RL, and other DL techniques.
• Support large-scale data curation, feature representation, and self-supervised/multimodal learning from structured/unstructured data.
• Contribute to shared training infrastructure and deployment pipelines.
• Stay current with academic/industry DL developments and share insights with the team.

Skills

Deep learning research

Python

PyTorch

Transformer models

Representation learning

Communication

Education

PhD/Master's/Bachelor's in a quantitative field

Tools

PyTorch

JAX

TensorFlow

Job description

IMC Trading is seeking Deep Learning Researchers to develop state-of-the-art models for financial markets. You will collaborate with senior researchers from concept to deployment, tackling transformers, representation learning, and multimodal data in large-scale AI systems.

The ideal candidate holds a PhD, Masters, or Bachelor's in a quantitative field and has hands-on DL/ML experience with PyTorch, TensorFlow, or JAX.