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Machine Learning Research Engineer - Hong Kong & London- Global Trading

On site

London, United kingdom

Mid level

Full Time

02-03-2026

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Skills

Machine Learning

Job Specifications

Salary: Competitive

Location: Hong Kong and London

Summary:

World-famous, global trading firm with offices in New York, London and Hong Kong. This firm trades a wide range of financial products including ETFs, Equities, Futures, Commodities, Options, Bonds, Currencies. Billions of dollars' worth of transactions flow through their systems every day and whilst their systems are large, their teams are not, which provides an environment to make a huge impact.

Machine Learning is a critical pillar of this business and in this role, you will build the infrastructure that makes it all possible. You will develop libraries to automate ML workflows, dig into the internals of open-source ML tools and help drive the direction of an ML platform that is used daily by traders and researchers across the whole company. You must be an accomplished Software Engineer with deep experience in machine learning techniques and the software systems that power them.

Requirements:

5+ years of commercial experience
Software engineering background with deep experience in ML
Top 50 global university degree in Computer Science/ AI (or a related field)
Large-scale distributed systems
Note: no previous finance experience required

Benefits:

Flexible/hybrid working
Dress down
Fully catered (breakfast, lunch and dinner)
Onsite gym
Global health, dental and vision insurance

Whilst we carefully review all applications, to all jobs, due to the high volume of applications we receive it is not possible to respond to those who have not been successful.

Contact

If you think you are a strong match for this role, please don't hesitate to get in touch!

Kishan Patel

kishan.patel@oxfordknight.co.uk

+44 (0)20 3137 9572

linkedin.com/in/kishan-patel-4029aa8b

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