Machine Learning Intern

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 Responsibilities

• 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

• MSc. Graduates from top tier universities, with specialisation in machine learning, statistics, deep learning, probabilistic programming
• Experience in fundamental ML frameworks like Pytorch and Jax
• Experienced in Python, experience in C++ is highly desired
• Publications in respected journals in deep learning, time-series models
• Genuine interest in financial markets (no prior knowledge or experience is required)
• Must be able to start the internship on June 23, 2025

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 2025. We encourage you to focus on enhancing your skillset before reapplying.
IMC Trading's internship program 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 Trading is unable to obtain immigration sponsorship for candidates who currently have citizenship from Russia, Belarus, Iran or Ukraine, and attend university in one the aforementioned countries. We greatly appreciate your understanding and hope to consider you for future opportunities.
If you are a citizen of one of the aforementioned countries and are currently residing or attending university outside of that country, but have existing work authorisation in the EU 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 leading trading firm, known worldwide for our advanced, low-latency technology and world-class execution capabilities. Over the past 30 years, we've been a stabilizing force in the financial markets - providing the essential liquidity our counterparties depend on. Across offices in the US, Europe, and Asia Pacific, our talented employees are united by our entrepreneurial spirit, exceptional culture, and commitment to giving back. It's a strong foundation that allows us to grow and add new capabilities, year after year. From entering dynamic new markets, to developing a state-of-the-art research environment and diversifying our trading strategies, we dare to imagine what could be and work together to make it happen.