Senior AI Engineer

Job Title: Senior AI Engineer

Location: London

Salary: Up to £200,000

This is a unique opportunity for an experienced AI engineer to join a specialised team building AI-driven trading and quantitative systems operating at significant scale across global financial markets. You will work at the intersection of machine learning, time-series modelling, and algorithmic strategy developing models that directly influence trading decisions and market performance.

If you have a strong background in ML applied to financial data and a deep understanding of market microstructure, this role was written for you.

The Role

Design, build, and deploy production-grade ML models for algorithmic trading, signal generation, and quantitative research pipelines. This is a hands-on engineering role with significant ownership over how AI shapes strategy and execution. You will collaborate closely with quant researchers and trading teams to translate complex financial problems into robust, low-latency ML solutions, and play a key role in defining the technical architecture of the platform.

Requirements

• Master's or PhD in Machine Learning, AI, CompSci, Mathematics, or a quantitative discipline
• 5+ years of ML engineering experience, ideally within finance or a quantitative environment
• Expert in Python and deep learning frameworks: PyTorch and / or TensorFlow
• Strong experience with time-series modelling, forecasting, and financial signal generation
• Familiarity with reinforcement learning applied to trading or sequential decision-making
• Understanding of market microstructure, order book dynamics, or quantitative finance fundamentals
• Proven track record of deploying low-latency, high-reliability models to production

If this role is of interest, please apply below.