About the job
Join our dynamic team at Pinely as a Deep Learning Research Group Lead, where you will spearhead innovative AI research initiatives and take full charge of one of our key subgroups. This pivotal role is essential to our organization as our deep learning strategies increasingly drive our business growth each year. The team you lead will have a significant impact across various markets and asset classes.
Your Responsibilities:
- Lead the development of advanced AI models, particularly foundational models for market data, to accurately forecast prices of financial instruments in diverse and rapidly changing markets.
- Define and steer the research agenda: formulate hypotheses, design experiments, and thoroughly validate findings.
- Mentor and guide researchers, focusing on recruitment, motivation, development, and retention of top talent.
- Streamline the research process to ensure it is efficient, transparent, and value-centric.
- Consolidate results from various researchers into a cohesive, functional product.
- Engage in coding and strategy development, not merely oversight.
- Gradually broaden your responsibilities within the deep learning division.
Candidate Profile:
- A passionate and adaptable deep learning researcher with a strong background in technical leadership.
- Preferably with expertise in competitive, application-driven AI fields such as large language models, reasoning systems, and generative models (e.g., video).
- Motivated by depth of research and real-world impact, eager to contribute meaningfully to both the team and the broader field.
- A supportive leader who maintains a high-performance pace while nurturing a positive team environment.
- While prior trading experience is beneficial, it is not mandatory; we value a first-principles mindset and a readiness to innovate within quantitative markets.
What We Offer:
- Significant influence on a core aspect of the company—deep learning is vital for our growth.
- Immediate effect on real profit and loss: streamlined processes, rapid feedback loops, and direct evaluation of your contributions.
- A unique setting for data-driven research, complete with extensive datasets, reproducible experiments, and results substantiated by billions of observations.
- Robust engineering support and access to a Data Center equipped with H200s, doubling in capacity each year.
- Engagement with complex challenges in a highly competitive environment characterized by low signal-to-noise ratios and vast amounts of loosely correlated data that demand innovative, rigorous, and advanced solutions.
- The chance to create foundational models for finance, shaping the future of the quantitative industry.
- The freedom to experiment, delve into extensive research, and establish your vision for model and strategy development.
- A top-tier team based in Amsterdam, with strong offline collaboration and a streamlined hierarchy.

