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Graduate Machine Learning Researcher - Chicago

Chicago💼 Full-time💰 $300,000–$300,000🗓 2026-07-27 → 2026-09-26

Core

Design, implement, and evaluate machine learning models for global trading strategies across equities, futures, and options markets.

Role type

PhD-level machine learning researcher (quantitative finance)

Builds

Production trading systems and novel ML approaches for global markets

Domain

Quantitative finance / Financial markets

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Deep learning fundamentals, neural network architectures, sequence modeling, training dynamics, optimization, statistical analysis, model risk assessment, Python, PyTorch, TensorFlow, JAX

Preferred skills

Publications at NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, research internships

Responsibilities

Design and evaluate ML models for trading, apply statistical techniques to measure performance and control overfitting, investigate novel ML approaches, communicate research progress, collaborate with traders and engineers to translate research into production systems

Seniority

PhD-level researcher

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