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Senior Machine Learning Researcher - Sports Betting/Trading

Harnham
City of London
2 weeks ago
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MACHINE LEARNING RESEARCHER - Sports Betting/Trading

HYBRID - Once per week in London

£100,000 - £180,000 + generous benefits


COMPANY:

We are working with a successful company focused on building advanced platforms for sports betting analytics and trading.


They are looking for an ML/Quant researcher to join the team and drive innovation within the team. The quality of work you will be doing in this role is pivotal to the company and will have a high impact on their overall success.


ROLE:

  • Improve the predictive power of existing models based on fundamental data.
  • Work closely with the CEO, CTO, and Team Lead to design, test, and implement new ML models.
  • Continually seek to improve existing state-of-the-art solutions.
  • You will be involved in all aspects of the R&D process, from high-level design through to production implementation.
  • High level of autonomy to research whichever methods you felt would be best suited to the problem at hand


REQUIREMENTS:

  • A strong mathematical understanding of the fundamentals of Machine Learning and core Statistics
  • Experience in doing research on cutting-edge models either in industry or academia.
  • Passionate about learning new skills and techniques. Comfortable finding and reading academic papers to generate new research ideas.


PROCESS:

  • Online assessment
  • Technical interview
  • Assessment day

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