2027 Shanghai Machine Learning Engineer Summer Internship
OptiverAbout the Role
As a Machine Learning Engineer Intern at Optiver, you'll work alongside experienced engineers on high-performing systems that respond to live financial markets in real time. You'll contribute to compute platforms and libraries that support large-scale machine learning model training and simulation workloads, gaining hands-on experience applying modern ML techniques to real quantitative trading problems. Within weeks, you could be building tools or models that run in production and directly support our trading strategies.
- Gain first-hand experience applying the latest ML methodologies to quantitative trading problems
- Help build the compute platform and libraries for large scale ML model training and simulation workloads
- Manage a project end-to-end, learn how to work with a complex code base and make impactful contributions to production systems
- Work on real trading and IT problems, both technically and functionally, to improve our trading success
Requirements
- Students graduating in 2028 or later
- Foundations in Machine Learning, including optimisation and deep learning concepts
- Hands-on experience with deep learning frameworks such as PyTorch, JAX, or similar
- Interested in building scalable and reproducible machine learning pipelines, including data preprocessing, training, evaluation, and experiment tracking
- Natural problem solvers who love tackling a complex technical challenge
- Team players who thrive in collaborative environments and are eager to learn, iterate, and improve
- Interested in the trading / quantitative finance industry (prior finance knowledge is not required)
- Optional: Ability to identify and reason compute and performance bottlenecks, using profiling, benchmarking, and systematic analysis to improve training efficiency
- Optional: Experience with distributed training or GPU acceleration is a plus
- Optional: Familiarity with experiment management tools (e.g. MLflow, Weights & Biases) or workflow orchestration is a plus
- Application materials submitted in English: Resume
- Optional application material: Cover letter
What You'll Get
- A highly competitive remuneration package
- Optiver-covered flights and accommodation for the duration of the internship
- The opportunity to work alongside diverse and intelligent peers in a rewarding environment
- Training, mentorship and personal development opportunities
- Gym membership, plus weekly in-house chair massages
- Daily breakfast, lunch and in-house barista
- Regular social events