Group Lead ML Infrastructure

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Amsterdam, NLD
In-Office
Senior level
Fintech • Software • Financial Services
The Role
Lead and grow an ML infrastructure team building training frameworks, dataset pipelines, orchestration, experiment tracking, GPU/compute infrastructure, and release tooling to scale deep learning research into production. Drive performance, reliability, reproducibility, hire and mentor engineers, collaborate closely with researchers, and contribute hands‑on code to reduce training time and improve hardware utilization.
Summary Generated by Built In

We are looking for a ML Infra Group Lead to drive the ML infrastructure that powers our deep learning research and trading. This is one of the most important roles in the company. As our DL strategies become an increasingly central driver of the business each year, the team you will lead will scale its impact across all major markets and asset classes — by enabling our researchers to iterate faster and bring their ideas to production reliably.

While the DL Research Group Lead drives the research agenda, you will own the platform side: the training framework, dataset pipelines, compute efficiency, and release tooling that turn research prototypes into production-grade ML models.

Responsibilities
  • Drive the development of our internal ML platform — training framework, dataset and data pipelines, orchestration, experiment tracking and reproducibility tooling, GPU/compute infrastructure, and release tooling — that powers our DL strategies across all markets;
  • Own end-to-end performance of large-scale model training: GPU cluster utilization, MFU, training time, reliability, and reproducibility of models from master;
  • Shape the technical agenda of the team: identify bottlenecks, prioritize improvements, and deliver measurable infrastructure wins (e.g., a 10% training speedup on our cluster translates into millions of euros of compute value);
  • Lead engineers across diverse profiles: hire, motivate, develop, and retain talent, including ML performance engineers, Python infrastructure engineers, and tool builders;
  • Make the platform fast, transparent, and value-driven for researchers — shorten iteration cycles and remove infra friction from research workflows;
  • Directly code and contribute to the ML platform, not just supervise;
  • Partner closely with DL researchers on the Research/Infra interface — code review for shared training and dataset code, debugging non-reproducible models, observability of data and model quality, and release readiness;
Requirements
  • A motivated, versatile ML/infra engineer with experience in technical leadership of teams that build platforms for ML researchers;
  • Strong background in at least one of: large-scale ML training systems, GPU performance engineering (PyTorch, Triton, CUDA), distributed training, data and ML pipeline infrastructure (storage formats, orchestration, experiment tracking, configuration);
  • Hands-on experience accelerating ML research in production or large-scale research settings — reducing training time, improving hardware utilization, or shortening feedback cycles for researchers (e.g., faster data access, better experiment tooling, more reliable pipelines);
  • Strong sense of ownership: comfortable taking responsibility for code quality, reproducibility, and observability across a large shared ML codebase — not just reactive fixes, but proactive bug hunting, tech-debt reduction, and rigorous code review;
  • A leader who can sustain a strong pace while fostering a healthy, supportive team culture, and who can give clear, growth-oriented feedback;
  • Ability to work effectively at the DL/Infra boundary — engaging with research priorities and translating them into infrastructure work that compounds over time;
  • While prior trading experience can be useful, it's not a prerequisite. Our priority is a first-principles mindset and a willingness to rethink how things are done in quantitative ML infrastructure.
What we offer
  • High base salary and social benefits;
  • Generous bonus structure. We are very flexible in discussing salary and conditions of employment;
  • Cutting-edge hardware and software in production as well as high technical expertise of the company which allows implementation of bold ideas and boosting great results. Ownership over initiatives that directly solve business problems;
  • Ability to trade on dozens of international exchanges;
  • Flexible workflow (lack of formalism and bureaucracy, no pressure and over-management) and working schedule;
  • Tuition reimbursement, conference and training sponsorship.

Skills Required

  • Technical leadership experience building platforms for ML researchers (hiring, mentoring, team development)
  • Strong background in large-scale ML training systems
  • GPU performance engineering (PyTorch, Triton, CUDA)
  • Experience with distributed training
  • Experience building data and ML pipeline infrastructure (storage formats, orchestration, experiment tracking, configuration)
  • Hands-on experience accelerating ML research in production or large-scale research settings (reducing training time, improving hardware utilization, shortening feedback cycles)
  • Strong ownership of code quality, reproducibility, and observability across a shared ML codebase
  • Ability to work at the DL/Infra boundary and translate research priorities into infrastructure work
  • Hands-on coding contribution to the ML platform (not just supervision)
  • Prior trading experience
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The Company
HQ: Singapore
117 Employees
Year Founded: 2008

What We Do

We’re Pinely, an algorithmic trading firm, privately owned and funded. As a proprietary trading firm, we’re not using capital from clients or external investors to trade. That makes all of Pinely ours: our ideas, our money, our technology. All built and thought out by our people. We trade on the world’s financial markets using our in-house developed research and technology. Most of our strategies are based on HFT (High Frequency Trading) algorithms and depend on our ultra-low latency networks to operate optimally. Active in various financial markets and products, the Pinely family consists of several firms and offices in Singapore, Cyprus and the Netherlands, sharing the same base technology. Every day, we put our algorithmic research and technology to the test. Every day, we face the world’s financial markets with our money on the line. And every day, we come out on top. That’s because we’re driven by the best researchers and powered by the best technologists. But most of all, it’s because we love what we do!

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