Machine Learning Performance Engineer

Optiver is a seeking a Machine Learning Performance Engineer to join our team,

focusing on a pivotal AI initiative. This role would offer the opportunity to

have significant impact across Machine Learning infrastructure, training, and

inference challenges to advance our futures trading strategies.

What you'll do:

* Build scalable and robust training and inference pipelines for deep learning

* Dive into internals of open-source deep learning frameworks and enhance their

functionality

* Identify and eliminate performance bottlenecks

* Collaborate closely with researchers and other engineers

* Develop an in-depth understanding of trading systems

What you’ll get:

You’ll join a culture of collaboration and excellence, surrounded by curious

thinkers and creative problem-solvers. Motivated by a passion for continuous

improvement, you’ll thrive in a supportive, high-performing environment

alongside talented colleagues, collectively tackling some of the toughest

challenges in the financial markets.

In addition, you’ll receive:

* The opportunity to work alongside best-in-class professionals from over 40

different countries

* A highly competitive compensation package

* Global profit-sharing pool and performance-based bonus structure

* 401(k) match up to 50%

* Comprehensive health, mental, dental, vision, disability, and life coverage

* 25 paid vacation days alongside market holidays

* Extensive office perks, including breakfast, lunch and snacks, regular social

events, clubs, sporting leagues and more

Who you are:

* Strong knowledge of low-level GPU programming with CUDA, including Tensor

Cores, cooperative groups, graphs, and warp-level intrinsics

* Expertise in internals of deep-learning frameworks like PyTorch, JAX,

TensorFlow, etc.

* Deep understanding of computer architecture

* Experience in C++ and Python

Nice to have:

* Experience with JAX ecosystem (XLA, Flax, etc.)

* Familiarity with GPU libraries and tools such as Triton, CUB, cuDNN, and

cuBLAS

* Linux system programming experience

* Experience with large-scale distributed training

* Contributions to open-source projects related to data science and machine

learning

Who we are

Optiver is a tech-driven trading firm and leading global market maker. As one of

the oldest market making institutions, we are a trusted partner of 70+ exchanges

across the globe. Our mission is to constantly improve the market by injecting

liquidity, providing accurate pricing, increasing transparency and acting as a

stabilizing force no matter the market conditions. With a focus on continuous

improvement, we participate in the safeguarding of healthy and efficient markets

for everyone who participates.

Our differences are our edge. Optiver does not discriminate on the basis of

race, religion, color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, physical

or mental disability, or other legally protected characteristics.

Below is the expected base salary for this position. This is a good-faith

estimate of the base pay scale for this position and offers will ultimately be

determined based on experience, education, skill set, and performance in the

interview process. This position will also be eligible for a discretionary bonus

(if determined by Optiver) and Optiver’s benefits package with the benefits

listed above.

Base Salary Range

$200,000—$200,000 USD