ICML Conference 2025
Sunday 13 July – Saturday 19 July, 2025
Vancouver Convention Centre
1055 Canada Pl, Vancouver, BC V6C 0C3, Canada
Discover how Optiver is applying advanced machine learning techniques to solve real-world, high-impact challenges in the global financial markets.
Research-powered trading
Optiver is a leading global trading firm. We design and build our high-performance trading systems in-house, executing millions of trades daily at nanosecond speed, across 100+ global exchanges.
To navigate the markets successfully, we design trading algorithms that rely on complex machine learning models to anticipate and match the speed at which global capital markets change.
Find your next role
Excited by the idea of applying your research to solve real-world problems? Discover how your expertise can help shape the future of quantitative trading.
Austin
Quantitative Researcher,
HFT Futures / Equities
AI Agents
Developer
Machine Learning
Researcher
Graduate Quantitative Researcher, Bachelor’s or Master’s
Graduate Quantitative Researcher,
PhD
Quantitative Research Internship,
Bachelor’s or Master’s
Quantitative Research Internship,
PhD
Chicago
Quantitative Researcher,
HFT Futures / Equities
Graduate Quantitative Researcher,
PhD
Quantitative Research Internship,
PhD
Quantitative Research Internship,
Bachelor’s or Master’s
New York
Quantitative Researcher,
HFT Futures / Equities
Machine Learning Performance
Engineer
Machine Learning Research
Engineer
AI Agents
Developer
Machine Learning
Researcher
Graduate Quantitative Researcher,
PhD
Shanghai
Senior Machine Learning
Platform Engineer
Senior Machine Learning
Modelling Engineer
Graduate Machine Learning
Modelling Engineer
Machine Learning Internship,
PhD
2026 Quantitative Research Internship,
PhD – Expression of Interest
Amsterdam
2026 EU Graduate & Intern –
Expression of Interest
Looking for a different role? Check out our careers page below.
about us
Data-driven innovation
Solving financial markets presents one of the most fascinating and complex quantitative problems in existence today. Markets are constantly evolving. They change every nanosecond, everywhere around the globe, generating trillions of data points in real time.
At Optiver, our researchers, engineers and traders work side-by-side to build intelligent trading systems that adapt to the constant motion of global markets. From the code to execution, your work has direct and immediate impact—not just on our strategies, but on markets industry-wide.
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.
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.
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.
A culture built for breakthroughs
Fast research and development cycles
We don’t build for clients, we build for ourselves. Ideas are tested rapidly and rolled into production immediately.
Investment in breakthroughs
We dedicate a large share of our resources towards longer term R&D. Working at the bleeding edges of computer science and machine learning.
Shared success
Discoveries don’t stay siloed. Research findings are scaled across all dimensions: markets, product types, and time horizons. This ensures that the work of one team drives progress for the entire organisation.
Open collaboration
We embrace an open, collaborative culture that enables multidisciplinary problem-solving and builds on the insights of many. For that reason, intellectual property and code repositories are kept widely accessible across research teams.
Ownership
We replace tasks with end-to-end ownership of complex problems and research areas. We set the vision, decide the most important problems to tackle, and guide each solution from concept to execution.
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ICML Conference 2025
The International Conference on Machine Learning (ICML) is the premier gathering of professionals dedicated to the advancement of the branch of artificial intelligence known as machine learning.
ICML is globally renowned for presenting and publishing cutting-edge research on all aspects of machine learning used in closely related areas like artificial intelligence, statistics and data science, as well as important application areas such as machine vision, computational biology, speech recognition, and robotics.
ICML is one of the fastest growing artificial intelligence conferences in the world. Participants at ICML span a wide range of backgrounds, from academic and industrial researchers, to entrepreneurs and engineers, to graduate students and postdocs.