2027 Shanghai Machine Learning Engineer Summer Internship

2027 Shanghai Machine Learning Engineer Summer Internship As a Machine Learning Engineer Intern at Optiver, you’ll work alongside experienced engineers on high-performing systems that respond to live financial markets in real time. You’ll contribute to the compute platforms and libraries that support large-scale machine learning model training and simulation workloads, gaining hands-on experience applying modern ML techniques to real quantitative trading problems. Within weeks, you could be building tools or models that run in production and directly support our trading strategies. By the end of the 8-week internship, you’ll have a clear and practical understanding of how technology and ML techniques are used in the quantitative trading industry. Plus, if you’ve excelled over the summer, you’ll receive an offer to return as a Machine Learning Engineer. What you’ll do: Led by our in-house education team that consists of ex-traders and engineers, you’ll delve into advanced engineering concepts and lead innovative projects, during our world-class training program. In just a few weeks, you'll have the opportunity to: Gain first-hand experience applying the latest ML methodologies to quantitative trading problems. Help build the compute platform and libraries for large scale ML model training and simulation workloads. Manage a project end-to-end, learn how to work with a complex code base and make impactful contributions to production systems. Work on real trading and IT problems,