Full Time

AI/ML Quant Trader

DTG Finance & Capital Markets
Full-time
Investment Management
United States
$200,000 - $300,000* / year (about $96–$144 an hour)

Job Description

AI/ML Quant Trader

Fully Systematic Trading | Machine Learning Driven

What this role really is

A trader who builds machines that trade.

Not discretionary trading enhanced by models — but fully systematic strategies where AI and ML drive the decision process, from signal generation to portfolio construction.

You design the system, test it, deploy it, and improve it.

The core idea

Markets are noisy, adaptive systems.

Machine learning can help uncover patterns — if applied carefully.

Your job is to turn data → models → strategies → live trading systems.

What you’ll actually be doing

Researching signals

  • Mining market and alternative datasets for predictive structure
  • Applying ML techniques to forecasting, classification, and regime detection

Building strategies

  • Designing systematic trading strategies driven by model outputs
  • Combining signals into portfolio-level decisions

Running experiments

  • Running large-scale backtests and robustness checks
  • Stress-testing models across regimes and market conditions

Operating live systems

  • Deploying models into production
  • Monitoring performance and refining strategies over time

What your background might look like

You likely have experience somewhere along the intersection of:

  • machine learning
  • systematic trading
  • quantitative research

You’ve probably:

  • built models that actually traded
  • worked with financial time-series data
  • written a lot of research and production code

Programming (usually Python) and strong statistical intuition are essential.

How success is measured

Simple metrics:

  • quality of signals
  • robustness of strategies
  • live trading performance

Why people take roles like this

  • Full ownership of systematic strategies
  • Ability to apply modern ML methods to markets
  • Research that directly translates into capital allocation
  • Opportunity to scale successful strategies

In short:

This role is for someone who enjoys designing and running AI-driven trading systems — not just researching them.

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