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Apex Fintech Solutions (AFS) powers innovation and the future of digital wealth management by processing millions of transactions daily, to simplify, automate, and facilitate access to financial markets for all. Our robust suite of fintech solutions enables us to support clients such as Stash, Betterment, SoFi, and WeBull, and more than 20 million of our clients' customers.
Collectively, AFS creates an environment in which companies with the biggest ideas in fintech are empowered to change the world. We are based in Dallas, TX and also have offices in Austin, New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, Portland, and Belfast.
If you are seeking a fast-paced and entrepreneurial environment where you'll have the opportunity to make an immediate impact, and you have the guts to change everything, this is the place for you.
AFS has received a number of prestigious industry awards, including:

  • 2021, 2020, 2019, and 2018 Best Wealth Management Company - presented by Fintech Breakthrough Awards
  • 2021 Most Innovative Companies - presented by Fast Company
  • 2021 Best API & Best Trading Technology - presented by Global Fintech Awards


Would you like to be part of a company that is modernizing the traditional financial services industry? At Apex Fintech Solutions, we provide features and services that power many of today's hottest stock trading applications. Processing millions of transactions each day, our systems simplify, automate, and facilitate access to financial markets for all. We are looking for a seasoned machine learning scientist to build and test models on top of our rich, untapped data.
If you are passionate about harnessing data to design, build, and deploy creative models to address existing and novel problems, then this role is for you. As a Machine Learning Scientist, you will play a fundamental role in pioneering the use of machine learning at Apex Fintech Solutions in critical areas such as cash transfers, price optimization, fraud detection, and risk management. Along the way, you'll learn about the problem space and re-imagine existing solutions. Your work will interface with a number of back-end services, and you will be an important part of architecting a data landscape that facilitates the models you envision.
This is an opportunity to join and shape a growing machine learning team in the exciting area of financial services, at a company renowned for innovation. You can have a huge impact here. There are a multitude of opportunities to drive the business forward by defining and formulating solutions using state-of-the-art deep learning and classic machine learning techniques.
This role reports directly to the Principal Machine Learning Lead and works closely with engineers, product owners, analysts, and many others across the organization.
This role is open to candidates in the Portland & Chicago areas.
What you'll do all day:

  • Design, develop, and validate machine learning models for use cases that enrich Apex Fintech Solutions' industry-leading API.
  • Find novel science-driven solutions within some of the most impactful problems in the fintech space, including risk modeling, customer lifetime-value & investor segmentation.
  • Develop scalable data pipelines that enable training and serving models on massive datasets.
  • Deploy, monitor, and maintain models in production.
  • Help shape a presence and identity for machine learning at Apex Fintech Solutions and its parent company, PEAK6.


What you'll need to succeed:

  • Advanced degree in a technical field (e.g., computer science, computer engineering, physics, statistics) preferred, but appropriate alternate experience considered.
  • Solid theoretical grasp of machine learning and deep learning approaches (supervised and unsupervised learning, reinforcement learning, time series, clustering)
  • Strong mathematical foundation and intuitions, particularly in probability, statistics, and linear algebra
  • At least 1 year Professional experience with design, development, and deployment of machine learning solutions to real-life problems.
  • Strong proficiency and in-depth understanding of Python, including expert-level experience with some subset of the major Python ML/DL libraries (e.g., PyTorch, TensorFlow, scikit-learn, pandas, numpy).
  • Ability to navigate in a SQL environment (i.e., solid understanding of SQL).
  • Professional experience developing models in a distributed cloud computing environment.
  • (preferred) Professional experience developing ETL pipelines to support large-scale machine learning model training and productionization.
  • (preferred) Professional experience with MLops (productionization, monitoring, and maintenance).


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What are PEAK6 Perks + Benefits

PEAK6 Benefits Overview

At PEAK6, you’ll find flexibility with our work-life balance, collaborative spirit, and the ability to cater to your strengths while having opportunities to cultivate new ones.

At PEAK6 we’ve created a company that not only does great work, it’s also a great place to work. PEAK6 employees enjoy the generous health, vision, and dental insurance plans and matching 401(k) programs you’d expect from a company consistently rated one of “Chicago’s Best and Brightest Employers.” And, then some.

We offer a formalized mentorship program for entry-level trading associates and software engineers, as well as several internships and bootcamps for college students. We make diversity, equality, and inclusion a focus and have invested in a vibrant philanthropy program to support the communities where our people live and work.

Culture
Partners with nonprofits
PEAK6 offers coordinated volunteer and philanthropic opportunities throughout the year including, Go Red For Women, Socktober, Filling in the Blanks Backpack Drive, Matching Gifts, and Holiday Giving.
Open door policy
OKR operational model
Team based strategic planning
Pair programming
Open office floor plan
Employee resource groups
Employee-led culture committees
Hybrid work model
In-person all-hands meetings
Flexible work schedule
Remote work program
As a hybrid workforce, we offer our employees the ability to work remotely up to two days a week.
Diversity
Dedicated diversity and inclusion staff
Mandated unconscious bias training
Diversity manifesto
Diversity employee resource groups
POWHER seeks to amplifying women’s voices through the knowledge of money.  BRIDGE, Black Resourceful Individuals Dissolving Gaps Everywhere
Diversity recruitment program
Health Insurance & Wellness Benefits
Flexible Spending Account (FSA)
We offer generous medical, vision & dental plans, including Preferred Provider Organization (PPO) and Health Savings Account (HSA) options.
Disability insurance
Dental insurance
Vision insurance
Health insurance
Life insurance
Pet insurance
Wellness programs
We offer annual wellness screens and flu shots at no additional cost to employees.
Mental health benefits
Offering Ginger, emotional well-being, and mental health apps to employees and their dependents ages 18 and older. GuidanceResources, is an employee assistance program to help with life's challenges.
Financial & Retirement
401(K)
401(K) matching
Performance bonus
Charitable contribution matching
PEAK6 offers a Matching Gift Program to encourage employees to become active in the support of non-profit organizations and to have a voice in determining the recipients of charitable contributions.
Child Care & Parental Leave Benefits
Generous parental leave
Family medical leave
PEAK6 offers up to 12 weeks of unpaid, job-protected leave per year, as well as maintained health benefits, for any employee eligible under the Family and Medical Leave Act (FMLA).
Adoption Assistance
PEAK6's adoption assistance program provides employees with reimbursement for up to $5,000 (per child) of adoption expenses.
Vacation & Time Off Benefits
Generous PTO
PEAK6's vacation policy includes three weeks of PTO, plus 5 personal days. Employees with 5 years of service accrue four weeks of PTO, plus 5 personal days.
Sabbatical
Employees with 10+ years of service can apply to take an 8-week Sabbatical, as well as adding up to 4 weeks of accrued PTO.
Paid holidays
Paid sick days
Bereavement leave benefits
Office Perks
Commuter benefits
PEAK6 offers pre-tax commuter benefits for all employees through WageWorks, as well as a Zipcar discount.
Company-sponsored outings
PEAK6 has themed social events throughout the year as well as a popular annual company party known for featuring surprise, high-profile stars like Imagine Dragons, The Chainsmokers, and Keith Urban
Free snacks and drinks
PEAK6 has a fully-stocked kitchen that includes a cereal bar, coffee bar, a variety of healthy food choices and drinks, as well as an abundance of snacks to put a rumbling stomach to rest.
Some meals provided
Company-sponsored happy hours
The Culture Club at PEAK6 works to host themed social events throughout the year.
Onsite office parking
Recreational clubs
We sponsor various teams based on employee interest, such as: table tennis, beach volleyball, soccer, kickball, flag football, dodgeball, and whirlyball.
Relocation assistance
We offer relocation assistance plans for new employees and their families.
Fitness stipend
PEAK6 offers free yoga classes to Chicago employees at Bottom Line Yoga, which are currently conducted via Zoom.
Mother's room
Onsite gym
Professional Development Benefits
Job training & conferences
PEAK6 is firmly committed to learning and development as a way to grow and develop employees.
Tuition reimbursement
At the discretion of management and after completing one full-year of employment, we reimburse up to $8,000 per employee each calendar year for certifications and other educational programs or degree.
Lunch and learns
Promote from within
Mentorship program
Continuing education stipend
Paid industry certifications

Additional Perks + Benefits

We have a dedicated team of employees who volunteer to be a part of our Connections Club. This group works to connect employees through delightful experiences while making a positive impact on PEAK6 life. The Connections Club plans many social and philanthropic employee events throughout the year.

We host bi-annual Hackathons as a collaboration of our technology, trading, support and analytics teams to develop, build, and present new ideas to the firm. The teams are free to explore solutions to problems in and outside of the day-to-day work. Winning Hackathon solutions are frequently deployed and tested in the firm.

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