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Member of Research Staff, Optimization

Berkeley, CA💼 Full-time🗓 2026-06-23 → 2026-09-26

Core

Develop and implement large-scale optimization models and algorithms to determine real-time trading decisions in financial markets, balancing predictions, costs, and constraints.

Role type

Senior IC research scientist (optimization & ML)

Builds

Production optimization systems for investment management

Domain

Finance (quantitative trading) + Optimization

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

numerical methods, optimization solvers, mathematical programming, convex/nonconvex optimization, stochastic control, reinforcement learning, Python, C++, production coding

Preferred skills

Ph.D. degree, publication record in top-tier venues

Technologies

Python, C++

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