Machine Learning Researcher

What you’ll do day-to-day

• Develop and evaluate ML models and approaches for challenging quantitative research problems.

• Formulate research hypotheses and design rigorous experiments to assess predictive performance, robustness, and generalization.

• Explore and apply advances in ML research, including new model architectures, representations, training objectives, and learning techniques.

• Rapidly prototype, implement, and benchmark promising ideas using large-scale financial and other complex datasets.

• Develop efficient implementations and tackle computational challenges—including large-scale training or GPU optimization—where doing so enables more ambitious quantitative research.

• Collaborate with quantitative researchers and developers to take successful ideas from initial exploration toward real-world application.

What we’re looking for

• Bachelor’s degree or higher.

• Deep expertise in ML and a sound quantitative research orientation, with experience developing and empirically evaluating sophisticated ML approaches.

• Solid understanding of modern ML methods and the mathematical and statistical principles underlying them.

• Demonstrated ability to formulate hypotheses, design rigorous experiments, interpret results, and distinguish meaningful improvements from noise or overfitting.

• Excellent programming skills and the ability to independently take research ideas from concept through scalable implementation.

• Proficiency with modern ML frameworks such as PyTorch or JAX; experience with large-scale training, GPU computing, performance optimization, or technologies such as CUDA, XLA, or Triton is valuable for more computationally intensive research.

• Intellectual curiosity, keen research judgment, and an interest in applying advances in ML to difficult quantitative problems.

• The expected annual base salary for this position is $275,000 to $350,000. Our compensation and benefits package includes substantial variable compensation in the form of a year-end bonus, guaranteed in the first year of hire, a sign-on bonus, and benefits including medical and prescription drug coverage, 401(k) contribution matching, wellness reimbursement, family building benefits, and a charitable gift match program.