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Senior Member of Research Staff, Optimization

Berkeley, CA💼 Full-time🗓 2026-06-16 → 2026-09-26

Core

Design, implement, and improve large-scale constrained optimization methods to determine real-time trading decisions in financial markets, balancing forecasts, risk, costs, and liquidity.

Role type

Senior IC research scientist (optimization & trading systems)

Builds

Production optimization systems and models for algorithmic trading

Domain

Financial technology / Quantitative trading

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

large-scale optimization, stochastic control, reinforcement learning, mathematical programming, Python, C++, statistical methods, software development

Preferred skills

Ph.D. degree, prior finance industry experience

Technologies

Python, C++

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