Senior Machine Learning Researcher at Longshot Systems Ltd (London, UK)

At Longshot Systems were building advanced platforms for sports betting analytics and trading.

We are a small start-up company working in a rewarding and challenging industry. Having developed a lot of our core platform infrastructure we are looking to begin expanding our trading strategy research activity. Our core systems handle thousands of events per second, 24/7. We have similar problems and constraints to high frequency trading firms, but in the sports betting world.

You'd be working closely with the CEO, CTO and Machine Learning research team to design, test and implement new high frequency sports betting strategies based on machine learning models. Due to us being a small startup the role suits someone who wants to be involved in all aspects of the R&D process, from high-level design through to production implementation. Our ML stack is Python based and communicates with our core infrastructure, written in Golang, by RPC.

The ideal candidate will be highly creative and enjoy generating new, innovate ways to tackle problems and suggesting improvements to existing methodologies; you'll have a high level of autonomy to research whichever methods you felt would be best suited to the problem at hand. A strong mathematical understanding of the fundamentals of Machine Learning is very important for this role and ideally you'll have experience in doing research on cutting-edge models either in industry or academia.

If you're the kind of person who enjoys knocking up a prototype model based on something you read the other day in a research paper you'll enjoy our working environment. We have weekly research afternoons where each member of the team reads up about a new topic, technique or academic paper that interests them and discusses or presents it to the rest of the team afterwards to ensure we're always learning and staying on top of recent research and technologies. The team attends (and presents at) conferences to further aid this research.

We've got a pretty relaxed atmosphere here with team lunches / after work drinks a regular occurrence (our local pub does excellent Thai food, we go frequently). Our customary office hours are week days, 10 til 6. We don't much like peak rush hour. If that doesn't suit, let us know and we can talk, we're flexible. Our office is based in Marylebone, London.

Benefits

Our salary range for the role is £70,000 to £85,000, depending on experience and interview performance. We offer 10% matched pension contributions as standard for all staff.

We do not currently offer other benefits such as private health or dental insurance, but we are open to negotiating if this is something you need.

Choose your own hardware & setup for your development environment. Adjustable standing desks provided

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