Trading AI Researcher: Build & Deploy Deep Models

Fintal Partners; New York (NY); On-site; USD 180,000 - 250,000; Full time

Job summary

Fintal Partners is seeking a Deep Learning Researcher to build models from the ground up for trading, joining a central research team that partners with traders across the firm.

You will pretrain models from scratch, design novel architectures, and push state-of-the-art methods into production, owning the full data-to-model pipeline in a fast-paced, high-performance environment on-site in New York City or Chicago.

Qualifications

• PhD in CS/Math/Statistics/Engineering or related quantitative field.
• 5+ years building deep learning models with hands-on pretraining or novel architectures.
• Deep expertise in modern deep learning theory and practice.
• Strong Python skills, fluent in PyTorch, TensorFlow, and/or JAX.
• Track record of publications at top venues (ICML, ICLR, NeurIPS, or equivalent).
• Comfortable collaborating in a fast-paced, high-performance team.

Responsibilities

• Architect and train novel deep learning models applied to trading and markets.
• Lead research from first principles, including pretraining models from scratch.
• Push state-of-the-art techniques into production, from idea to deployed model.
• Work closely with researchers, engineers, and traders to turn insights into working systems.
• Own the full data-to-model pipeline, including acquisition, preprocessing, and feature design.

Skills

Deep learning theory

Research leadership

Publications

Education

PhD in CS/Math/Statistics/Engineering

Tools

PyTorch

TensorFlow

JAX

Job description

Fintal Partners is seeking a Deep Learning Researcher to build models from the ground up for trading, joining a central research team that partners with traders across the firm.

You will pretrain models from scratch, design novel architectures, and push state-of-the-art methods into production, owning the full data-to-model pipeline in a fast-paced, high-performance environment on-site in New York City or Chicago.