Optiver's employees use AI not just to increase productivity, but to redesign the way the firm operates. As our AI Engineering Education Lead, you'll partner with the Head of AI Engineering to lead and implement AI education across our teams globally, reducing resistance to adoption and turning AI fluency into measurable business impact across Trading, Technology and Business Operations.
What you'll do:
- Drive AI education for employees across the firm, spanning audiences across trading, technology, and business operations teams
- Design and develop training programs in close collaboration with stakeholders across the globe; both for one-off sessions as well as curriculum-based programs
- Build and support a network of local trainers across our offices to deliver training in-region, including train-the-trainer programs tailored to varied audiences
- Establish and leverage strategic partnerships with content and training firms
- Develop and implement metrics to track the impact of training programs
- Turn learning experiences from employees into product input for our internal AI Platform
- Manage stakeholders at executive levels and act as a credible voice for AI adoption across the firm
What you'll get:
You’ll join a culture of collaboration and excellence, surrounded by curious thinkers and creative problem-solvers. Motivated by a passion for continuous improvement, you’ll thrive in a supportive, high-performing environment alongside talented colleagues, collectively tackling some of the toughest challenges in the financial markets.
In addition, you’ll receive:
- The opportunity to work alongside best-in-class professionals from over 40 different countries
- Highly competitive compensation package
- Global profit-sharing pool and performance-based bonus structure
- 401(k) match up to 50%
- Comprehensive health, mental, dental, vision, disability, and life coverage
- 25 paid vacation days alongside market holidays
- Extensive office perks, including breakfast, lunch and snacks, regular social events, clubs, sporting leagues and more
Who you are:
- Technically credible and hands-on: you understand AI systems and tooling deeply enough to build demos, workflows and training material yourself.
- You understand how people adopt new technologies and can design learning experiences that change behaviour, not just transfer knowledge.
- Pragmatic and outcome-focused: you concentrate on upskilling employees in ways that unlock revenue and productivity, not on training for its own sake.
- Strong coordinator and communicator: you drive progress with and through other people, translating concepts across varying levels of AI fluency and managing senior stakeholders with confidence.
- Comfortable with ambiguity: you thrive in high-stakes problem spaces with incomplete information and can move from big-picture framing to concrete detail without losing either.
- Legal authorization to work int he U.S. is required; we will not sponsor individuals for employment authorization for this job opening
Experience that helps:
- Background as a tech evangelist, developer relations lead, or platform advocate, ideally for AI or developer tooling
- Experience designing and delivering technical education programs at scale, including train-the-trainer models across multiple regions
- Exposure to AI-native firms or trading, fintech or high-performance technology environments where adoption directly drives commercial outcomes
Who we are:
At Optiver, our mission is to improve the market by injecting liquidity, providing accurate pricing, increasing transparency and stabilising the market no matter the conditions. With a focus on continuous improvement, we prioritise safeguarding the health and efficiency of the markets for all participants. As one of the largest market making institutions, we are a respected partner on 100+ exchanges across the globe.
Our differences are our edge. Optiver does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, physical or mental disability, or other legally protected characteristics.
Below is the expected base salary for this position. This is a good-faith estimate of the base pay scale for this position and offers will ultimately be determined based on experience, education, skill set, and performance in the interview process. This position will also be eligible for a discretionary bonus (if determined by Optiver) and Optiver’s benefits package with the benefits listed above.
Skills Required
- Deep understanding of AI systems and tooling sufficient to build demos, workflows, and training materials
- Ability to design learning experiences that change behavior and drive technology adoption
- Outcome-focused approach to upskilling that unlocks revenue and productivity
- Strong coordination and communication skills, with experience managing senior/executive stakeholders
- Comfort with ambiguity and ability to move from high-level framing to concrete implementation
- Experience developing and implementing metrics to track training program impact
- Background as a tech evangelist, developer relations lead, or platform advocate (ideally for AI or developer tooling)
- Experience designing and delivering technical education programs at scale, including train-the-trainer models across regions
- Experience establishing and managing strategic partnerships with content and training firms
- Exposure to AI-native firms or trading, fintech, or high-performance technology environments
Optiver Compensation & Benefits Highlights
The following summarizes recurring compensation and benefits themes identified from responses generated by popular LLMs to common candidate questions about Optiver and has not been reviewed or approved by Optiver.
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Career-Linked Recognition & Rewards — Pay is considered highly competitive in trading, quantitative, and engineering paths, with performance-linked bonuses that materially elevate total compensation. High performers receive differentiated rewards tied to impact.
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Leave & Time Off Breadth — Generous paid vacation alongside market holidays is a consistent component of the U.S. package. This breadth of leave is a notable element of the offering.
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Healthcare Strength — Comprehensive health coverage—including medical, dental, and vision—is prominently offered in U.S. roles, with indications that employee premiums are fully covered in some cases. Disability and life coverage further strengthen the core health benefits.
Optiver Insights
What We Do
Optiver’s story began over 30 years ago, when we started business as a single trader on the floor of Amsterdam’s options exchange. Today, we are at the forefront of trading and technology as a leading global electronic market maker, focused on pricing, execution and risk management.
Why Work With Us
People at Optiver love challenges, welcome collaboration, and strive to be better tomorrow than they are today. Improving the market is an extraordinary challenge that requires a carefully crafted approach. Optiver provides a collaborative working environment to tackle these challenges. In fact, it is this way of working that sets us apart.
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