Performance Engineer

IMC

FPGA ENGINEERING INTERN Are you someone who is passionate about challenging the status quo? Do you enjoy the process of problem solving, a process where you recognize areas of improvement and iterate and innovate to improve? Does your curiosity and desire to learn drive you? If so, then join IMC as a Hardware Engineer Intern! At IMC, Hardware Engineers don’t just write code and design technology. They are responsible for spotting new opportunities, developing new technologies and solving problems. As a result, they deliver results and make a difference. IMC knows that having the best technology is what drives our business. Hardware development here is innovative, pragmatic and fun, even as complexity grows.   WHAT YOU’LL DO: As a Hardware Engineer Intern, you will learn what it means to be an Engineer in a real-world environment. The internship program is focused on enhancing your knowledge of algorithm complexity, professional design, and writing fluent code. Your responsibility does not stop at programming; it also encompasses knowledge building of our business model and building relationships across our trading and technology teams. As a Hardware Engineer Intern at IMC you will be supported by both a mentor who will oversee your projects and professional development. You will have access to pair programming and code reviews, not to mention our incredible social activities and events.   WHAT WE LOOK FOR: • Student in (pen)ultimate year of Electrical Engineering  • Strong analytical skills and desire to solve complicated problems programmatically. • Must have proficient experience in Verilog, VHDL or other RTL programming (additional software experience is a plus; Python, C++, or similar) • Interest in financial markets is a must, but no prior knowledge or experience is required. • Available for at least 9 weeks.   OUR CULTURE: We are at the core a trading firm; however, we value trading and technology equally and we believe that cooperation between traders and technologists is one of our great strengths. This is also reflected in our organizational and remuneration policies. We believe in fostering a truly flat environment in which great ideas can be recognized as well as put into practice from anybody within our organization.   Apply now. #LI-DNI   About Us IMC is a global trading firm powered by a cutting-edge research environment and a world-class technology backbone. Since 1989, we’ve been a stabilizing force in financial markets, providing essential liquidity upon which market participants depend. Across our offices in the US, Europe, Asia Pacific, and India, our talented quant researchers, engineers, traders, and business operations professionals are united by our uniquely collaborative, high-performance culture, and our commitment to giving back. From entering dynamic new markets to embracing disruptive technologies, and from developing an innovative research environment to diversifying our trading strategies, we dare to continuously innovate and collaborate to succeed.

IMC

C++ Software Engineer  At IMC, technology is not a department; it’s at the heart of everything we do. Developed in-house, our innovative software makes millions of trading decisions daily, and we win by making better and faster decisions than our competition. IMC’s Amsterdam-based C++ Execution development teams work on software that sits directly in the latency-critical loop of our technology stack and touches every part of our organisation. From ensuring our connectivity to the market and handling massive amounts of data, to implementing complex trading algorithms and integrating advanced hardware solutions. Your Core Responsibilities: As a software engineer, you’ll work in multidisciplinary teams alongside other engineers as well as traders, researchers, and quants to deliver challenging projects, while taking ownership for end-to-end product development – from requirements gathering to production. You’ll write reliable, high-performance software while balancing time to production with quality and testability. Advanced automated testing and daily deployments will allow you to achieve agile and incremental benefits. Within a complex landscape of varying systems and technologies, you’ll be constantly challenged to consider trade-offs between latency, throughput, simplicity, scalability and maintainability. * Coding, developing, testing, deploying and maintaining applications and automations for Trading Teams and/or Hardware Development and Execution Teams. * Working through internal client requests. Gathering details, requirements and feedback from a range of internal stakeholders in order to implement creative automation solutions using innovative coding practices. Your Skills and Experience: * Minimum 5+ years professional working experience as a software engineer post graduation * Strong programming skills in C++. Experience in the latest versions of C++ is highly desirable * Familiarity with Python scripting * Familiarity with Docker and Kubernetes * Comfortable in Linux environments * Experience gathering business requirements, communicating with key stakeholders and delivering solutions quickly * The ability to work on greenfield projects under minimal supervision and to take full ownership of the applications you build * A high degree of flexibility and adaptability: willing and able to deal with uncertainty and ambiguity in a rapidly evolving environment * Strong troubleshooting and diagnostic skills; ability to solve problems creatively and proactively * Prior knowledge of trading / capital markets is not required. Curiosity and a willingness to learn is. About Us IMC is a global trading firm powered by a cutting-edge research environment and a world-class technology backbone. Since 1989, we’ve been a stabilizing force in financial markets, providing essential liquidity upon which market participants depend. Across our offices in the US, Europe, Asia Pacific, and India, our talented quant researchers, engineers, traders, and business operations professionals are united by our uniquely collaborative, high-performance culture, and our commitment to giving back. From entering dynamic new markets to embracing disruptive technologies, and from developing an innovative research environment to diversifying our trading strategies, we dare to continuously innovate and collaborate to succeed.

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As a Machine Learning Engineer, you will play a pivotal role in building systems that drive the training and deployment of large-scale ML models across our global operations. You'll collaborate with leading researchers, hardware experts, and software engineers to build robust solutions that maximize the potential of GPU acceleration, distributed computing, and the latest open-source tools. Your work will influence our trading strategies by accelerating experimentation cycles that foster continuous innovation and refinement. This is a unique opportunity to solve problems at the intersection of advanced machine learning and trading, where your contributions will shape the future of IMC’s technology and trading capabilities. Your Core Responsibilities:  * The opportunity to be in a brand new position in a growing team  * Develop large-scale distributed training pipelines to manage datasets and complex models * Build and optimize low-latency inference pipelines, ensuring models deliver real-time predictions in production systems * Develop libraries to improve the performance of machine learning frameworks * Maximize performance in training and inference using GPU hardware and acceleration libraries * Design scalable model frameworks capable of handling high-volume trading data and delivering real-time, high-accuracy predictions * Collaborate with quantitative researchers to automate ML experiments, hyperparameter tuning, and model retraining * Partner with HPC specialists to optimize workflows, improve training speed, and reduce costs * Evaluate and roll out third-party tools to enhance model development, training, and inference capabilities * Dig into the internals of open-source ML tools to extend their capabilities and improve performance Your Skills and Experience:  * 5+ years of experience in machine learning with a focus on training or inference systems * Hands-on experience with real-time, low-latency ML pipelines in high-performance environments is a strong plus * Strong engineering skills, including Python, CUDA, or C++ * Knowledge of machine learning frameworks such as PyTorch, TensorFlow, or JAX * Proficiency in GPU programming for training and inference acceleration (e.g., CuDNN, TensorRT) * Experience with distributed training for scaling ML workloads (e.g., Horovod, NCCL) * Exposure to cloud platforms and orchestration tools * A track record of contributing to open-source projects in machine learning, data science, or distributed systems is a plus   About Us IMC is a global trading firm powered by a cutting-edge research environment and a world-class technology backbone. Since 1989, we’ve been a stabilizing force in financial markets, providing essential liquidity upon which market participants depend. Across our offices in the US, Europe, Asia Pacific, and India, our talented quant researchers, engineers, traders, and business operations professionals are united by our uniquely collaborative, high-performance culture, and our commitment to giving back. From entering dynamic new markets to embracing disruptive technologies, and from developing an innovative research environment to diversifying our trading strategies, we dare to continuously innovate and collaborate to succeed.