# Senior Research Engineer - Voleon Securities
**Company:** [The Voleon Group](https://hotfix.jobs/companies/voleon)
**Location:** New York, NY, Berkeley, CA
**Salary:** $225K-$310K
**Experience:** 5+ years
**Skills:** Python, PyTorch, JAX, Go, C++, Postgres, MySQL, Cassandra, DynamoDB, Rest, gRPC
**Posted:** 2026-05-08
> Builds and optimizes ML research infrastructure, deploys models to production for market-making strategies, and mentors engineers. Requires 5+ years backend experience, Python proficiency, and ML frameworks like PyTorch/Jax.
## Job Description
## Responsibilities
- Develop and optimize ML driven research infrastructure (Python, Pytorch, Jax)
- Optimize training and inference for machine learning models (Pytorch, Jax)
- Deploy machine learning models from research into production
- Develop tooling to integrate data from diverse exchanges and sources
- Improve the resilience and performance of our trading systems
- Collaborate with external engineering support teams at Voleon, including the trading execution team
- Mentor and develop other engineers on the team, and share your practices and knowledge with the team and company

## Requirements
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related field (or equivalent experience)
- 5+ years of software engineering experience, with a strong background in backend systems, distributed computing, or data infrastructure
- Experience in programming languages such as **Python**, **Go**, and **C++**
- Understanding of database technologies (**Postgres**, **MySQL**, **Cassandra**, **DynamoDB**, **SQLite**, **DuckDB** or **MongoDB**) and experience with APIs (**REST/gRPC**)
- Strong problem-solving skills, with a focus on delivering high-quality, maintainable, and well-documented solutions
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills; ability to work closely with both engineering and research teams

## Preferred Qualifications
- Expertise in building and optimizing data pipelines
- Experience with profiling and performance optimizations on highly available systems
- Expertise implementing deep learning and RL frameworks in **Pytorch** or **Jax**
- Experience optimizing research infrastructure and providing engineering support to researchers
- Experience building a quantitative market-making strategy
- Experience bringing machine learning models into production
- Experience leading cross team collaborations or working cross functionally
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