Optiver attended ICLR 2025, one of the world’s leading conferences for machine learning and representation learning, held from 24–28 April in Singapore. The event brought together researchers, engineers and industry experts exploring the latest advances in AI, deep learning and data-driven problem solving.
Optiver is a leading global trading firm. We engineer our trading systems in-house to support the millions of trades we make every day, across 100+ exchanges globally.
Financial markets present one of the most fascinating, complex quantitative problems in the world today. Markets are constantly evolving, and changes occur at nanosecond speed, generating trillions of data point around the globe every day.
Solving financial markets presents one of the most fascinating and complex quantitative problems in existence today. Markets are constantly evolving. They change every nanosecond, everywhere around the globe, generating trillions of data points in real time.
At Optiver, our researchers, engineers and traders work side-by-side to build intelligent trading systems that adapt to the constant motion of global markets. From the code to execution, your work has direct and immediate impact—not just on our strategies, but on markets industry-wide.
You’ll join a culture of collaboration and excellence, where you’ll be surrounded by curious thinkers and creative problem solvers.
Driven by a passion for continuous improvement, you’ll advance your career in a supportive, high-performing environment alongside talented colleagues, working collectively to tackle some of the most complex problems in the financial markets.
As a Quantitative Researcher, your goal is to discover trading facts by pursuing truth and knowledge amidst a sea of data and noise. We follow the scientific process, bringing contributions together from all fields.
Through comprehensive research, back testing and superb engineering implementation, we translate breakthroughs into live trading strategies at speed and at scale.
Nobody can reach their full potential alone. The Quantitative Research team is built upon collaboration and shared knowledge. We are a flat organisation with a global profit-sharing pool – rewarding great ideas that can come from anyone.
As a team, we strive to continuously improve and look for individuals who take that mission personally – to make tomorrow better than today.
We improve the market
We are committed to doing the right thing, always
We aim for excellence
Our belief in continuous improvement pushes us to be our best
We do our best work together
Collaboration drives our success
We challenge the status quo
We embrace critical thought, diverse thinking, self-reflection and open feedback
We take ownership
Owners, entrepreneurs and initiative takers make the difference
The International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) is the premier gathering of professionals dedicated to the advancement of the branch of artificial intelligence called representation learning, but generally referred to as deep learning.
ICLR is globally renowned for presenting and publishing cutting-edge research on all aspects of deep learning used in the fields of artificial intelligence, statistics and data science, as well as important application areas such as machine vision, computational biology, speech recognition, text understanding, gaming, and robotics.
Participants at ICLR span a wide range of backgrounds, from academic and industrial researchers, to entrepreneurs and engineers, to graduate students and postdocs.
