Quantitative Researcher – Machine Learning

Company: DRW
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Location: London
Job Description:

Overview

In this role you will translate cutting-edge ML insights into production-ready solutions that support forecasting and trading across asset classes. You will design, deploy, and scale ML models and pipelines to handle high-dimensional, noisy data, partnering with cross-functional teams. Exceptional ML talent from tech, startups, or academia. This position offers the chance to influence trading strategies and risk management through robust, scalable machine learning.

Responsibilities

  • Research, design, and deploy robust ML models
  • Build and maintain scalable, production-level ML pipelines
  • Extract signals from large, noisy, real-world datasets

Key requirements

  • PhD in ML, Computer Science, or related field
  • Deep theoretical and practical knowledge of core ML algorithms; comfortable with architectures, feature engineering, and hyperparameter tuning
  • Proven experience taking ML models from research to live production
  • Experience in applying ML to financial markets is desirable; exceptional candidates from tech/startups/academia considered
  • curiosity
  • autonomy
  • adaptability
  • transformer-based architectures
  • state-of-the-art ML frameworks
  • production-level ML pipelines

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Posted: October 1st, 2026