AI Lab - Research

Optiver ·New York, New York·Posted 30 September 2026

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About the AI Lab The AI Lab is a research-focused trading team exploring how advances in machine learning can be applied to complex problems in quantitative research and trading. The Lab develops and runs its own ML-driven trading strategies, owning the full lifecycle from research and experimentation through production and revenue generation. The AI Lab sits within the Quantitative Strategy Group (QSG), and brings together researchers/traders, machine learning engineers, and software engineers to develop and execute its strategies. What You’ll Do As a Researcher in the AI Lab, your key responsibilities include: Designing, developing, and training novel ML models and methods — including LLMs and other foundation models — drawing on advances in deep learning and sequence modeling, for deployment in production trading systems Researching and developing new ML approaches for complex quantitative and sequential modeling problems Formulating hypotheses and designing rigorous experiments and evaluation frameworks, using appropriate baselines, ablations, and out-of-sample testing to identify promising research directions and understand why approaches succeed or fail Translating ideas…

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