IMC
Deep Learning Researcher
$250K–$300K
New York, United States +1 · Full-time · Posted Nov 28, 2025
- Location
- New York, United States
Chicago, United States - Experience
- 3+ years conducting deep learning research and developing large-scale machine learning systems.
- Education
- PhD or Master's degree in Computer Science, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Mathematics, Statistics, Engineering, or a related quantitative field.
About the job
Conduct deep learning research and build scalable models and infrastructure to improve trading performance across asset classes.
What you'll do
- Research, prototype, evaluate, and improve deep learning models and training methods for market prediction, signal generation, execution, and portfolio construction.
- Support large-scale data curation, representation learning, self-supervised learning, and multimodal learning.
- Collaborate with traders, researchers, and engineers to develop scalable solutions and share relevant research.
What they ask for
- PhD or Master's degree in a quantitative field.
- 3+ years of experience conducting deep learning research and developing large-scale machine learning systems.
- Expertise in modern deep learning architectures and strong understanding of deep learning theory, optimization, statistical learning, and neural network training.
- Strong Python skills; experience with modern deep learning frameworks and scalable ML infrastructure, experimentation, and deployment.
Nice to have
- Experience with large-scale pretraining is highly valued.
- Prior financial industry experience is not required.
Pay
$250,000 — $300,000 USD (base salary)
Tools
Python, PyTorch, JAX, TensorFlow
AI focus
Deep learning research and applications for trading, including large-scale pretraining, predictive modeling, representation learning, transformers, foundation models, generative AI, reinforcement learning, and multimodal learning.
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