Software Engineeer - NLP - Financial Markets
Senior NLP/ML Engineer - Event-Driven Trading Signals About the Role A leading trading firm is seeking a highly skilled engineer to spearhead efforts in applying Natural Language Processing and Machine Learning to generate trade signals from text-based and event-driven data. This includes: • News articles • Earnings reports • Headlines • Other real-time textual sources The successful candidate will have proven experience developing and deploying NLP/ML models into production for short-horizon, low-latency trading strategies (milliseconds to seconds). This is a hands-on leadership role and the first hire of this kind in the business. You will have full ownership and opportunity to make a significant PnL impact. Key Requirements • 3+ years of direct experience in: • NLP and ML applied to financial markets • Generating trade signals from textual/event-driven data • Production deployment of models • Familiarity with low-latency trading systems • Background in buy-side preferred; open to sell-side if relevant • Ability to work onsite in Midtown Manhattan (with limited summer remote flexibility) Apply tot his job