Machine Learning Engineer Quant · Copenhagen

Imagine working with cutting-edge machine learning models, designing robust and scalable software infrastructure, and collaborating with dedicated colleagues — all while playing a key role in scaling our business even further.

Does this sound exciting? Then you might be our new Machine Learning Engineer at Alipes Capital.

At Alipes Capital, we have been a market leader in automating financial markets since our inception in 2008, pioneering fully automated natural language processing systems to read and interpret financial news.

To accomplish our goal of being the best at what we do, we are focused on building a world-class ML engineering workflow, ensuring seamless training, deployment and monitoring of our predictive models. Your work will be instrumental in further developing the infrastructure that transforms massive unstructured financial data sets into production-ready inference models that drive real-time trading decisions.

In doing so, you will get a chance to help develop scalable, high-performance ML systems, ensuring a seamless pipeline from dataset generation through model prototyping to production deployment.

Key Responsibilities:

• Designing and optimizing infrastructure to support distributed model training and experiment tracking.
• Building and automating robust data pipelines for dataset generation and feature engineering, while enabling data version control.
• Developing software for rapid experimentation and deployment, including automated testing, continuous integration, and delivery.
• Implementing best practices in software development, ensuring maintainability, scalability, and efficiency of ML systems through automated testing and real-time monitoring.
• Improving model deployment workflows, focusing on minimizing latency, ensuring reproducibility, and enabling fast iterations.

You will get instant validation of your work and experience short feedback cycles, where going from inception to deployment can be a matter of hours. There will be no red tape to cut and no sales people to consult.

About the Team:

All of this will happen in an informal atmosphere where technical discussions are valued, and you are encouraged to take ownership of, and pride in, your work. You will impact the direction of the team, prioritize your work and choose the tools that get the job done. We are a tight-knit modeling team with passionate quantitative researchers covering 8 nationalities – fourteen PhD's and three MSc's with expertise in statistical analysis, mathematical modeling and machine learning. We enjoy collaboration and are always willing to lend a helping hand. We are working alongside two other teams of software developers and traders that implement and conceive the mathematical models together with us. What makes this constellation work great is that all of the individual team members write code and are willing to engage on a deep, technical level of understanding.

About You:

• Fluency with computer science fundamentals – data structures and algorithms.
• Experience working with "out-of-core" datasets and training distributed models.
• Experience with Python, in particular the data preprocessing, ETL pipelines and distributed systems.
• Familiarity with strongly typed languages like C# or C/C++ or Rust.
• Experience working with the full Machine Learning stack from data generation through model training and real-life validation and monitoring.
• Experience with distributed computing frameworks (for example Spark, Ray or Dask).

Nice to Have:

• A scientific and inquisitive mind.
• Experience working with tools like PyTorch, Tensorflow, XGBoost and/or Catboost.
• Familiarity with algorithmic trading concepts.
• PhD or MSc degree in engineering, computer science, mathematics or physics.

What We Can Offer You:

• Flat hierarchy and high levels of trust and autonomy.
• Exciting problems to solve.
• Collaborative team made up of really smart and curious people.
• Nice office in central Copenhagen with a hybrid work model.
• Pension, Health Insurance and 30 days of vacation.

Practicalities:

To apply, please send us your CV and a cover letter telling us why you think this role is a great fit for you. If your profile looks like a good match, we will get in touch to coordinate an online technical test as a first step in the interview process.

If you have specific questions about the role, you are welcome to email us at quant_jobs@alipescapital.com. Please do not send in your applications to this email address, as our interview team will not have visibility to review.