Machine Learning Intern (2026)

Our 10-week internship programme in Amsterdam is your chance to experience life as a Machine Learning Intern at IMC. As a Machine Learning Intern at IMC, you will delve into the proprietary trading landscape during a week of engaging and challenging classroom-based learning, continue to hone your skills with a meaningful project, and build a valuable network of IMC traders and engineers. Throughout the summer, you will receive comprehensive support from dedicated internship trainers, and a one-on-one mentor to guide you in your work and professional development. You will benefit from a highly competitive compensation package, fully-furnished corporate accommodation, catered meals, and experience IMC's collaborative culture as if you're already a full-time employee. Where you go from here is up to you!
YOUR CORE RESPONSIBILTIES

• Accelerating training of our ML trading models on a distributed environment
• Automating ML workflows, experiment evaluation and management, hyperparam tuning (autoML) & retraining to help traders in evaluating models
• Work on-and improve our growing GPU hardware cluster (data pipeline design, leveraging libraries such as GPUDirect & DALI)
• Build next generation ML driven trading strategies
• Attend workshops, trainings, and other fun social activities alongside the full internship cohort

YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCES

• In your final (graduating in 2026) year of study with a minimum of a MSc with a specialisation in machine learning, statistics, deep learning, probabilistic programming or a related field
• Experience in fundamental ML frameworks like Pytorch and Jax
• Experienced in Python, experience in C++ is highly desired
• Candidates with publications in respected journals in deep learning, GNNs, time-series models
• Genuine interest in financial markets (no prior knowledge or experience is required)
• Must be able to start the internship on June 22, 2026

Please note: If you have already applied for this position during the current recruitment season and were not selected, you may reapply when the next recruitment season begins in September 2026. We encourage you to focus on enhancing your skillset before reapplying.
IMC's internship programme duration is less than 90 days which unfortunately does not qualify for a Highly Skilled Migrant visa. Please note that because of this and current regulations with the Immigratie en Naturalisatiedienst (IND), IMC is unable to obtain immigration sponsorship for candidates who currently have citizenship from Russia, Belarus or Iran, and attend university in one the aforementioned countries. We greatly appreciate your understanding and hope to consider you for future opportunities.
If you have citizenship from Ukraine, you will need to confirm that you currently hold a biometric passport so that IMC can obtain the correct immigration sponsorship for you. Please confirm by emailing [email protected].
If you are currently residing or attending university outside of Russia, Belarus, Iran, and have existing work authorisation in the Netherlands or are eligible to work without sponsorship, we encourage you to apply and inform our campus recruitment team of your situation: [email protected].
About Us
IMC is a global trading firm powered by a cutting-edge research environment and a world-class technology backbone. Since 1989, we've been a stabilizing force in financial markets, providing essential liquidity upon which market participants depend. Across our offices in the US, Europe, Asia Pacific, and India, our talented quant researchers, engineers, traders, and business operations professionals are united by our uniquely collaborative, high-performance culture, and our commitment to giving back. From entering dynamic new markets to embracing disruptive technologies, and from developing an innovative research environment to diversifying our trading strategies, we dare to continuously innovate and collaborate to succeed.