ICLR Conference 2025

Research-powered trading

Optiver is a leading global trading firm. We engineer our trading systems in-house to support the millions of trades we make every day, across 100+ exchanges globally.

Financial markets present one of the most fascinating, complex quantitative problems in the world today. Markets are constantly evolving, and changes occur at nanosecond speed, generating trillions of data point around the globe every day.

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Quantitative Research Intern, PhD

Shanghai

Graduate Deep Learning Modelling Engineer, PhD

Shanghai

Senior Machine Learning Modelling Engineer

Shanghai

Machine Learning Intern, PhD

Shanghai

Machine Learning Researcher

Austin, TX

Machine Learning Researcher

New York City, NY

Machine Learning Research Engineer

New York City, NY

2026 EU Graduate & Intern – Expression of Interest

Amsterdam

2026 US Graduate & Intern – Expression of Interest

United States

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about us

Data-driven innovation

At Optiver, we look to revolutionise the trading landscape with advanced technological solutions that deliver unparalleled precision, speed and insights.

Backed by intellect and scientific rigour, our teams collaborate closely to build cutting-edge machine learning models and design innovative trading algorithms to predict and match the speed at which capital markets change.

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You’ll join a culture of collaboration and excellence, where you’ll be surrounded by curious thinkers and creative problem solvers.

Driven by a passion for continuous improvement, you’ll advance your career in a supportive, high-performing environment alongside talented colleagues, working collectively to tackle some of the most complex problems in the financial markets.

Explore. Hypothesise. Test. Iterate.

As a Quantitative Researcher, your goal is to discover trading facts by pursuing truth and knowledge amidst a sea of data and noise. We follow the scientific process, bringing contributions together from all fields.

Through comprehensive research, back testing and superb engineering implementation, we translate breakthroughs into live trading strategies at speed and at scale.

A place to reach your full potential

Nobody can reach their full potential alone. The Quantitative Research team is built upon collaboration and shared knowledge. We are a flat organisation with a global profit-sharing pool – rewarding great ideas that can come from anyone.

As a team, we strive to continuously improve and look for individuals who take that mission personally – to make tomorrow better than today.

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A values-driven culture

We improve the market

We are committed to doing the right thing, always

We aim for excellence

Our belief in continuous improvement pushes us to be our best

We do our best work together

Collaboration drives our success

We challenge the status quo

We embrace critical thought, diverse thinking, self-reflection and open feedback

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ICLR Conference 2025

The International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) is the premier gathering of professionals dedicated to the advancement of the branch of artificial intelligence called representation learning, but generally referred to as deep learning.

ICLR is globally renowned for presenting and publishing cutting-edge research on all aspects of deep learning used in the fields of artificial intelligence, statistics and data science, as well as important application areas such as machine vision, computational biology, speech recognition, text understanding, gaming, and robotics.

Participants at ICLR span a wide range of backgrounds, from academic and industrial researchers, to entrepreneurs and engineers, to graduate students and postdocs.