Artificial Intelligence Engineer (1744) Interactive Brokers
New York, NY

Job Description

Job Description and Responsibilities

We're growing our team -- if you're a high-energy, self-starting engineer with hands on experience with Artificial Intelligence, Interactive Brokers is the place for you. We take pride in providing our global client base with cutting-edge trading applications.

Interactive Brokers was founded by a software engineer to rewrite the rules of trading by automating anything and everything. Software development is the lifeblood of our firm, and it shows. Our engineers work with latest technology, command respect in the firm, and have competitive compensation packages.

* Develop solutions for real-world, large-scale problems using Artificial Intelligence/Machine Learning; improve deep learning engine that services our brokerage clients: https://ibkr.com/bot
* This role bridges the gap between Software Engineer and Research Scientist.
* Add more skills to the neural network, define training and validation sets; code automated tests.
* Setup feedback learning loop and fine-tune behavior based on customer interactions.
* Formulate and run experiments to improve comprehension rate by altering topology, tweaking activation and learning function and alike.
* Assist in coding execution engine.

Qualifications

* MS or PhD degree in Computer Science, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, or related technical field.
* Working experience with any major deep learning engine; familiarity with Deep Learning for Java (DL4J) toolkit is a major plus.
* Hands on Java coding experience is required; we use Java language for AI models in production and we'd like you to be able to contribute effectively in this setup
* Ideal candidate will be skilled in natural language processing, predictive and classification algos.
* Technically oriented, proactive, and enthusiastic, with extreme attention to detail.
* English written/verbal communication skills.

This is not a position for which non-US work visa sponsorship will be provided.

Company Overview

Interactive Brokers Group, Inc. (IEX: IBKR); is a direct access electronic broker catering to the needs of professional and frequent traders, institutional investors, financial advisors, and introducing brokers. Our clients have access to more than 120 market centers in 31 countries from a single account. We are the lowest cost provider of brokerage services and the largest U.S. electronic broker based on daily average revenue trades executing 950,000 trades per day.¹ Our employees are part of a dynamic, multinational, fast-paced, results-oriented team working to provide our customers with state-of-the-art trading technology, superior execution capabilities, worldwide electronic access, and sophisticated risk management tools.

¹Figures as of January 31, 2018.