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Trading AI Developer, Global Markets

Build Python analytics and AI applications for UBS’s trading business. The role develops production tools with front-office users on the bank’s quantitative platform.

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.

  • Implement quantitative models and trader-facing analytical tools.
  • Develop AI-assisted applications with trading and structuring teams.
  • Test production changes and integrate them with existing workflows.

What they ask for

Required

  • Python production development
  • Software architecture and analytical reasoning
  • STEM academic background
  • Communication with front-office teams

Preferred

  • Production AI and machine learning
  • Agentic systems and MCP integrations
  • Numerical Python tools
Education
Academic training in quantitative finance, mathematics, physics, engineering, computing or another STEM subject; degree level not specified.
Experience
Experience releasing changes to complex production systems; no minimum years stated.
Languages and tools
  • Python
  • NumPy
  • Polars
  • SciPy
Markets
multi-asset

How to prepare

  • Build a tested Python service for a trading analytics task.
  • Evaluate an AI workflow with reproducible checks and controlled data access.
  • Explain the design and failure handling of a production release.

What to study

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SelfMadeQuant wrote this summary from the employer’s public posting, last checked 6 November 2026. SelfMadeQuant isn’t affiliated with UBS and doesn’t handle applications.

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