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Machine Learning Engineer

Salary

$175k - $250k

Min Experience

5 years

Location

Chicago

JobType

full-time

About the role

As a Machine Learning Engineer, you will play a pivotal role in building systems that drive the training and deployment of large-scale ML models across our global operations. You'll collaborate with leading researchers, hardware experts, and software engineers to build robust solutions that maximize the potential of GPU acceleration, distributed computing, and the latest open-source tools. Your work will influence our trading strategies by accelerating experimentation cycles that foster continuous innovation and refinement. This is a unique opportunity to solve problems at the intersection of advanced machine learning and trading, where your contributions will shape the future of IMC's technology and trading capabilities. Your Core Responsibilities: Develop large-scale distributed training pipelines to manage datasets and complex models Build and optimize low-latency inference pipelines, ensuring models deliver real-time predictions in production systems Develop libraries to improve the performance of machine learning frameworks Maximize performance in training and inference using GPU hardware and acceleration libraries Design scalable model frameworks capable of handling high-volume trading data and delivering real-time, high-accuracy predictions Collaborate with quantitative researchers to automate ML experiments, hyperparameter tuning, and model retraining Partner with HPC specialists to optimize workflows, improve training speed, and reduce costs Evaluate and roll out third-party tools to enhance model development, training, and inference capabilities Dig into the internals of open-source ML tools to extend their capabilities and improve performance

About the company

IMC is a leading global trading firm powered by a cutting-edge research environment and a world-class technology backbone. Since 1989, we've been a stabilizing force in financial markets, providing essential liquidity upon which market participants depend. Across our offices in the US, Europe, and Asia Pacific, our talented quant researchers, engineers, traders, and business operations professionals are united by our uniquely collaborative, high-performance culture, and our commitment to giving back. From entering dynamic new markets to embracing disruptive technologies, and from developing an innovative research environment to diversifying our trading strategies, we dare to continuously innovate and collaborate to succeed.

Skills

python
cuda
c++
pytorch
tensorflow
jax
cudnn
tensorrt
horovod
nccl