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Principal Machine Learning Engineer – Quantitative Research & Trading Systems - SYD/HK

Sydney, Sydney Region💼 Full-time🗓 2026-06-24 → 2026-08-13

Core

Design and evolve large-scale machine learning infrastructure to enable researchers and engineers to build, train, deploy, and optimize advanced models for global trading performance.

Role type

Principal Machine Learning Platform Architect

Builds

Large-scale ML infrastructure for training, evaluation, deployment, and monitoring of trading models

Domain

Financial services / Quantitative trading / Deep learning

Deliverable

infrastructure

Required skills

Python, CUDA, C++, PyTorch, TensorFlow, JAX, distributed training, GPU optimization, deep learning architectures (transformers, state-space models, GNNs, temporal convolution networks), self-supervised learning, representation learning, continual learning, cross-sectional modeling

Preferred skills

None stated

Technologies

PyTorch, TensorFlow, JAX, CUDA

Responsibilities

Designing end-to-end ML infrastructure, driving architectural decisions for data/compute/experimentation, collaborating with research and trading teams, implementing scalable deep learning architectures, building observable ML systems, establishing engineering standards, mentoring engineers, evaluating emerging ML research, optimizing distributed training and model serving

Seniority

Principal, hands-on IC with strategy & mentorship

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