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Machine Learning Researcher

A research and engineering role in a newly formed CFM team building AI-based alpha models. It involves large-scale deep learning experiments and close work with data, ML platform and portfolio teams.

What you’d work on

Our reading of the posting: what a new hire in this role would most likely spend their first months on.

Iterate on data pipelines, target definitions and model architectures
Run and scale distributed multi-GPU training and evaluation
Profile bottlenecks and debug failed training runs
Review current deep learning research and apply useful ideas
Present results to the wider firm

What they ask for

Required

Python and a deep learning framework such as PyTorch
PhD in CS, ML or a quantitative field, or 2-3 years in AI research
End-to-end model development from data to monitoring
Modern architectures such as transformers and mixture of experts
Distributed training (FSDP, DeepSpeed, Megatron-LM)
Strong engineering skills

Preferred

LLM inference optimisation
Ray or Kubernetes
RLHF or DPO
CUDA kernels

Education: PhD in computer science, ML or a quantitative field preferred; or 2-3 years in AI research
Experience: PhD or 2-3 years in an AI research role
Languages and tools: Python
PyTorch
CUDA

How to prepare

Train a small transformer on financial time series and study how it fails
Learn distributed training in PyTorch (FSDP, DDP) on a multi-GPU setup or cloud
Read recent papers on efficient attention and long-context models
Practise profiling GPU training to find bottlenecks
Study why predictive models in finance are hard: noise, non-stationarity, overfitting

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