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Optiver

Trades financial assets with its own capital

AI Engineer

AI Application EngineeringConfirmed live in the last 24 hours
Full-timeShanghai, ChinaNo salary listedIn-person

About the Job

Requirements

  • A bachelor's degree in Computer Science, AI, or a related field is required.
  • At least 4 years of professional software or machine learning engineering experience is required.
  • Ability to make progress on ambiguous problems and make pragmatic engineering decisions is required.
  • Solid software engineering fundamentals and a track record of building maintainable production systems are required.
  • Excellent knowledge of Python, common AI and machine learning libraries, and integration with third-party services is required.
  • Some commercial or open-source experience developing AI agents with well-known services is required.

Responsibilities

  • Architect, develop, and operate the internal AI Engineering platform.
  • Design and implement evaluations for agents across a range of tasks, developing robust ways to measure quality, reliability, and business impact.
  • Work closely with internal partner teams building their own applications and workflows with AI.
  • Understand the model provider landscape and the strengths and weaknesses of different model families.
  • Collaborate within the global AI Engineering team to share perspectives from local customers.
  • Produce high-quality, unit-tested code and uphold consistent style and documentation through code reviews and continuous integration and continuous delivery practices.
  • Troubleshoot and debug AI systems to ensure optimal performance.

Desired Qualifications

  • Experience with large language model inference engines such as sglang or vLLM is a plus but not required.
  • Experience with model fine-tuning is a plus but not required.

About the Company

Optiver

Trades financial assets with its own capital

Optiver trades financial assets with its own money and quotes buy and sell prices that let investors trade without waiting for a matching counterparty. It makes markets in options, futures, stocks, exchange-traded funds, bonds and currencies across major markets in the Americas, Europe and Asia Pacific. Its traders, researchers and engineers build pricing models and fast computer systems that continuously adjust quotes and manage the risk of holding positions. The firm earns trading income from the difference between buying and selling prices, and its institutional sales teams handle larger trades directly with investors. Optiver was founded in 1986 and is headquartered in Amsterdam, Netherlands.

Company size
1,001-5,000
Company stage
Not listed
Total funding
Not listed
Headquarters
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Founded
1986

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