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Machine Learning Performance Engineer

Optiver · New York, New York

Posted about 3 months ago

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This role has been open
80 days
Optiver 's roles stay open a median of 81 days
Reposted
No
Salary listed
No
0% of Optiver 's roles list one
Ghost-job risk at Optiver
high
166 stale, 3 reposted of 168 open
Hiring momentum
222 roles opened in the last 90 days
↑ up vs. the prior 90 days
Last confirmed on the employer's board
2026-10-23

Measured from postings appearing on and disappearing from Optiver 's own greenhouse board since 2026-08-03. Full hiring picture for Optiver .

About this role

As a Machine Learning Performance Engineer at Optiver, you will focus on building and enhancing scalable training and inference pipelines for deep learning within a pivotal AI initiative. Your role involves diving into the internals of open-source deep learning frameworks, identifying performance bottlenecks, and collaborating with researchers and engineers to improve trading strategies. You will also gain a deep understanding of trading systems as part of your responsibilities.

Our read on this posting2.4out of 5
benefits
3/5
freshness
1/5
career value
4/5
role clarity
4/5
pay transparency
0/5

Scored from the posting itself — how clearly the role is described, how much it says about pay and benefits, and how recently it was listed. Not a judgement of Optiver as an employer.

What you need

  • 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

What you get

  • 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

Worth weighing

  • No salary listed beyond the base salary range of $200,000
  • The role may involve working with legacy systems depending on the existing infrastructure
  • Focus on performance engineering may limit exposure to broader machine learning applications

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Listed by Optiver on their greenhouse job board, last confirmed open on 2026-10-23. PitchMeAI is not the employer.

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