Reinforcement Learning Scientist - Market ML Pioneer

Jump Trading; New York (NY); On-site; USD 200,000 - 350,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Discretionary bonus eligibility

Medical, dental, and vision insurance

HSA, FSA, and Dependent Care

Job summary

Jump Trading Group in New York seeks an exceptional Research Scientist/Research Engineer to advance reinforcement learning for live markets.

You will conduct original RL research and own the systems that turn it into production trading: designing and evaluating policy architectures, reward formulations, and objective horizons with rigorous out-of-sample benchmarking; partnering with trading and research teams to source, integrate, and validate their alpha signals within the RL framework.

Qualifications

• 5+ years of experience developing reinforcement learning and/or deep learning systems with measurable impact in industry and/or academia.
• Depth in reinforcement learning, including designing reward formulations, policy architectures, and evaluation, and taking RL methods from research into production.
• Proficiency in Python and/or C++ and experience with ML libraries.
• Strong foundation in mathematics and statistics.
• PhD or Master’s degree in CS/ML/Robotics (or a related subject).
• Strong publication record at ICML, ICLR, AAAI, NeurIPS, CVPR, or equivalent.

Responsibilities

• Apply reinforcement learning to live trading and markets, designing and evaluating policy architectures and horizons.
• Build and maintain production-grade systems that translate research into trading signals.
• Collaborate with trading and research teams to source, validate, and integrate signals within an RL framework.
• Model market microstructure, fill dynamics, liquidity, and latency to ensure simulation fidelity.
• Develop efficient tooling to store, process, and analyze large market and signal data.

Skills

Reinforcement learning

Deep learning

Python / C++

PyTorch

TensorFlow / JAX

Maths & statistics

English communication

Education

PhD or Master’s in CS/ML/Robotics

Tools

Python

C++

PyTorch

TensorFlow / JAX

Linux

Job description

Jump Trading Group in New York seeks an exceptional Research Scientist/Research Engineer to advance reinforcement learning for live markets.

You will conduct original RL research and own the systems that turn it into production trading: designing and evaluating policy architectures, reward formulations, and objective horizons with rigorous out-of-sample benchmarking; partnering with trading and research teams to source, integrate, and validate their alpha signals within the RL framework.