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NeurIPS 2025 Career Opportunities

Here we highlight career opportunities submitted by our Exhibitors, and other top industry, academic, and non-profit leaders. We would like to thank each of our exhibitors for supporting NeurIPS 2025.

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Pinely is a privately owned algorithmic trading firm specializing in high-frequency and mid-frequency trading. We’re based in Amsterdam, Cyprus, and Singapore, and we’re experiencing rapid growth. Pinely is a high-frequency algorithmic trading firm based in Amsterdam. We develop robust and adaptive strategies across diverse markets and actively support the Olympiad movement; many team members are award-winning mathematicians, researchers, and engineers.

Researchers work in a fast-paced HFT environment where ideas quickly reach production. They are supported by a strong infrastructure team enabling large-scale experiments and reliable deployment. Our flat structure encourages autonomy, creativity, and direct impact. We value an informal, idea-driven culture.

We are opening a position for a Junior Deep Learning Researcher in our Amsterdam office.

Responsibilities:

  • Conduct research in AI, machine learning, and related quantitative fields
  • Develop and experiment with modern deep learning architectures
  • Analyze large, unstructured, noisy datasets
  • Collaborate with developers and researchers on optimizing trading strategies
  • Explore new methods and technologies to improve research outcomes

Requirements:

  • Publications in ICML, NeurIPS, ICLR, CVPR, ICCV
  • Degree in mathematics, physics, computer science, or another quantitative field (or expected within a year)
  • Knowledge of ML, probability theory, and statistics
  • Strong Python skills
  • Some C++ experience
  • Practical experience with modern DL architectures
  • Background in working with large noisy datasets

What we offer:

  • High base salary with substantial biannual bonuses
  • Relocation package to Amsterdam with flexible terms
  • Flexible workflow and schedule
  • Team of top mathematics and programming competition winners
  • Cutting-edge hardware, strong engineering support, and fast idea implementation
  • Internal training, comprehensive health insurance, sports reimbursement, and biannual corporate events

New York


Software Developer

Technology is integral to virtually everything the D. E. Shaw group does, which is why we seek exceptional software developers with a range of quantitative and programming abilities. Members of our technical staff collaborate on challenging problems that directly impact the firm’s continued success, utilizing their excellent analytical, mathematical, and software design skills as well as some of the most advanced computing resources in the world. Software developers have the opportunity to be part of a collegial, collaborative, and engaging working environment.

What you'll do day-to-day

Specific responsibilities may include formulating statistical models for our computerized trading strategies, developing distributed systems to analyze and react to incoming data in real time, and creating tools for advanced mathematical modeling.

Who we're looking for

  • Successful developers have traditionally been the top students in their programs and have extensive software development experience.
  • We welcome outstanding candidates at all experience levels.
  • The expected annual base salary for this position is 225,000USD. Our compensation and benefits package includes substantial variable compensation in the form of a year-end bonus, guaranteed in the first year of hire, a sign-on bonus, a relocation bonus, and benefits including medical and prescription drug coverage, 401(k) contribution matching, wellness reimbursement, family building benefits, and a charitable gift match program.

San Jose, CA, USA


We are looking for a hands-on, systems-oriented AI Agent Engineer to design, build, and maintain intelligent agents that drive automation and business impact across the enterprise. This role is responsible for the full lifecycle of agent development — from design to versioning, orchestration, and continuous learning.

You’ll contribute directly to scaling our AI strategy by engineering reusable components, optimizing agent workflows, and ensuring real-world performance in production environments.

What you'll Do

  • Agent Development: Build and fine-tune specialized AI agents for targeted customer experience use cases such as discovery, support, and lead qualification. Implement prompt engineering strategies, memory handling, resource management and tool-calling integrations

  • Multi-Agent Communication: Adopt agent-to-agent communication protocols and handoff mechanisms to enable cooperative task execution and delegation. Build orchestrated workflows across agents using frameworks like LangChain, AutoGen, or Semantic Kernel

  • Templates & Reusability: Create reusable agent templates and modular components to accelerate deployment across business units. Build plug-and-play configurations for domain-specific requirements.

  • Lifecycle Management & Monitoring: Track and improve conversation quality, task success rate, user satisfaction, and performance metrics. Automate monitoring of agent behavior using observability tools (e.g., Arize, LangSmith, custom dashboards)

  • Continuous Improvement: Implement learning workflows, including human-in-the-loop feedback and automatic retraining. Refine prompts and model behavior through structured experimentation and feedback loops.

  • Maintenance & Governance: Handle knowledge base updates, drift detection, performance degradation, and integration of new business logic. Ensure agents stay aligned with evolving enterprise data sources and compliance requirements

  • Deployment: Manage agent versioning, testing pipelines (unit, regression, UX), and controlled rollout processes. Collaborate with DevOps, QA, and infrastructure teams to ensure scalable deployments

What you need to succeed - 3–5+ years of experience in AI/ML engineering, NLP systems, or backend development - Strong proficiency with LLM frameworks (e.g., OpenAI APIs, LangChain, RAG pipelines) - Experience building conversational agents or workflow bots in production environments - Familiarity with cloud platforms (AWS/GCP/Azure), REST APIs, Python, and containerization (Docker, K8s) - Comfort with prompt design, vector databases, and memory handling strategies

Preferred Qualifications - Experience with multi-agent frameworks or agent orchestration systems - Familiarity with observability tools, data labeling workflows, or synthetic data generation - Background in conversational design or dialogue management systems - Degree in Computer Science, Data Science, Engineering, or a related field

Amsterdam

As a Quantitative Research Intern, you will get to work with our research team of mathematicians, scientists and technologists, to help develop the models that drive Optiver’s trading. You will tackle a practical research challenge that has impact and directly influences Optiver’s trading decisions. In our business, where the markets are always evolving, you will use your skills to predict its movements.

What you’ll do Led by our in-house education team, you will delve into trading fundamentals and engage in research projects that make a real difference. You will enhance your understanding of trading principles and gain hands-on experience by trading on live markets using real Optiver technology, with simulated capital. For the ten-week internship, you will get support from experienced researchers during your research project work, providing you exposure to a variety of areas, including: • Deep dive into trading and research fundamentals, from theoretical concepts to financial markets, strategies and cutting-edge technology • Using statistical models and machine learning to develop trading algorithms • Leveraging big data technologies to analyse trading strategies and financial instruments to identify trading opportunities • Combining quantitative analysis and high-performance implementation to ensure efficiency and accuracy of your models • Gain exposure to various trading and research desks and experience the financial markets first-hand Based on your performance during the internship, you could receive an offer to join our firm full-time after your studies.

What you’ll get You’ll join a culture of collaboration and excellence, where you’ll be 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, working collectively to tackle the toughest problems in the financial markets. In addition, you’ll receive: • A highly competitive internship compensation package • Optiver-covered flights and accommodation in the city centre for the duration of the internship • Extensive office perks, including breakfast and lunch, world-class barista coffee and Friday afternoon drinks • The opportunity to participate in sports and leisure activities, along with social events exclusively organised for your intern cohort

Who you are • Penultimate year student in Mathematics, Statistics, Computer Science, Physics or a related STEM field, with the ability to work full time upon graduation in 2027 • Solid foundation in mathematics, probability and statistics • Excellent research, analytical and modelling skills • Independent research experience • Proficiency in any programming language • Knowledge of machine learning, time-series analysis and pattern recognition is a plus • Strong interest in working in a fast-paced, collaborative environment • Fluent in English with strong written and verbal communication skills

Diversity statement Optiver is committed to diversity and inclusion. We encourage applications from candidates from any and all backgrounds, and we welcome requests for reasonable adjustments during the process to ensure that you can best demonstrate your abilities. Please let us know if you would like to request any reasonable adjustments by contacting the Recruitment team via the contact form, selecting “Reasonable Adjustments” as the subject of your inquiry.

For answers to some of our most frequently asked questions, refer to our Campus FAQs.

For applicants based in India, our entry route is via the placement office internship hiring season (July/August).

*We accept one application per role per year. If you have previously applied to this position during this season and have been unsuccessful, you can reapply once the next recruitment season begins in 2026.

Preference for on-site candidates in San Mateo, CA but remote possible.

BigHat is hiring ML interns for summer 2026! We've got an awesome high-throughput wetlab that pumps proprietary data into custom data and ML Ops infra to power our weekly design-build-train loop. Come solve hard-enough-to-be-fun problems in protein engineering in service of helping patients!

Toronto or Remote from US


Mission: As Senior Staff Compiler Engineer, you will be responsible for defining and developing compiler optimizations for our state-of-the-art compiler, targeting Groq's revolutionary LPU, the Language Processing Unit.

In this role you will drive the future of Groq's LPU compiler technology. You will be in charge of architecting new passes, developing innovative scheduling techniques, and developing new front-end language dialects to support the rapidly evolving ML space. You will also be required to benchmark and monitor key performance metrics to ensure that the compiler is producing efficient mappings of neural network graphs to the Groq LPU.

Ideal candidates have experience with LLVM and MLIR, and knowledge with functional programming languages an asset. Also, knowledge with ML frameworks such as TensorFlow and PyTorch, and portable graph models such as ONNX desired.

Responsibilities & opportunities in this role: Compiler Architecture & Optimization: Lead the design, development, and maintenance of Groq’s optimizing compiler, building new passes and techniques that push the performance envelope on the LPU. IR Expansion & ML Enablement: Extend Groq’s intermediate representation dialects to capture emerging ML constructs, portable graph models (e.g., ONNX), and evolving deep learning frameworks. Performance & Benchmarking: Benchmark compiler outputs, diagnose inefficiencies, and drive enhancements to maximize quality-of-results on LPU hardware. Cross-Disciplinary Collaboration: Partner with hardware architects and software leads to co-design compiler and system improvements that deliver measurable acceleration gains. Leadership & Mentorship: Mentor junior engineers, review contributions, and guide large-scale, multi-geo compiler projects to completion. Innovation & Impact: Publish novel compilation techniques and contribute thought leadership to top-tier ML, compiler, and computer architecture conferences.

Ideal candidates have/are: 8+ years of experience in the area of computer science/engineering or related 5+ years of direct experience with C/C++ and LLVM or compiler frameworks Knowledge of spatial architectures such as FPGA or CGRAs an asset Knowledge of functional programming an asset Experience with ML frameworks such as TensorFlow or PyTorch desired Knowledge of ML IR representations such as ONNX and Deep Learning

Additionally nice to have: Strong initiative and personal drive, able to self-motivate and drive projects to closure Keen attention to detail and high levels of conscientiousness Strong written and oral communication; ability to write clear and concise technical documentation Team first attitude, no egos Leadership skills and ability to motivate peers Optimistic Outlook, Coaching and mentoring ability

Attributes of a Groqster: Humility - Egos are checked at the door Collaborative & Team Savvy - We make up the smartest person in the room, together Growth & Giver Mindset - Learn it all versus know it all, we share knowledge generously Curious & Innovative - Take a creative approach to projects, problems, and design Passion, Grit, & Boldness - no limit thinking, fueling informed risk taking

About Salesforce

Salesforce is the #1 AI CRM, where humans with agents drive customer success together. Here, ambition meets action. Tech meets trust. And innovation isn’t a buzzword — it’s a way of life. The world of work as we know it is changing and we're looking for Trailblazers who are passionate about bettering business and the world through AI, driving innovation, and keeping Salesforce's core values at the heart of it all.

Ready to level-up your career at the company leading workforce transformation in the agentic era? You’re in the right place! Agentforce is the future of AI, and you are the future of Salesforce.

Salesforce AI Research advances AI techniques that pave the path for new AI research directions, innovative products, and applications with a positive impact on society. Our team of researchers, engineers, product managers, and designers drives AI innovation across pure research, applied research, and new product incubation—all built on our powerful AI platform. We bring companies and customers together using explainable, transparent, and accountable AI.

As part of our team, you’ll gain unique skills, work with talented people, and influence the industry standard for the fair and ethical use of artificial intelligence to help us shape the future of AI.

Check out our website to learn more about the groundbreaking work of the Salesforce AI Research Team.

Salesforce Research is looking for outstanding research interns. Ideal candidates have a strong background in one or more of the following core areas:

Natural Language Processing (NLP) Computer Vision (CV) Reinforcement Learning (RL) General Machine Learning (ML)

Our research focus includes, but is not limited to, the following cutting-edge areas:

AI Agents Large Language/Action Modeling Responsible & Trusted AI Human-AI Interaction AI for Software Developers AI for Operations / Time Series AI for Knowledge Management Mobile AI Multimodal AI Automatic Evaluation

Candidates that have published in top-tier conferences or journals (e.g., NeurIPS, ICML, ICLR, ACL, EMNLP, CVPR, CHI) are highly preferred.

ROLE & RESPONSIBILITIES: Collaborate with a team of research scientists and engineers on a project designed to lead to a submission at a top-tier conference. Develop novel algorithms and techniques that can be applied to real-world customer challenges within the Salesforce ecosystem. Contribute to the AI community by focusing on pure research that aligns with your PhD focus area. Learn about exciting research and applications outside your expertise. Attend conferences with our researchers to showcase accepted papers (when applicable).

MINIMUM REQUIREMENTS: PhD or MS candidate in a relevant research area. Strong background in machine learning, natural language processing, computer vision, or reinforcement learning. Excellent understanding of deep learning techniques, including CNN, RNN, LSTM, GAN, attention models, and optimization methods. Experience with one or more deep learning libraries and platforms (e.g., PyTorch, TensorFlow). Strong algorithmic problem-solving skills. Programming proficiency in Python, Java, C/C++, Lua, or a similar language.

INTERNSHIP DETAILS: This internship is a minimum of 12 weeks.

Pittsburgh, PA

US Citizenship required (green card or visa does not suffice)


Work with the world leaders in computational game theory on software products for real problems of importance! Positions are available for working on the nation's best fighter pilot AI, on wargaming, on command and control, on missile defense, and on optimizing the world's nuclear stability. Work on the most important problems in the world! The work leverages the leading course-of-action generation and execution AI system, which we have developed.

Required qualifications:

  • Degree as indicated in the position announcement roles

  • Strong software development skills

  • Excitement to change the world with AI products

  • Desire to work with the world's leading experts in a fast-moving environment

  • US citizenship (green card or visa does not suffice), and eligibility to obtain Top Secret clearance

Why apply?

  • The company is the world leader in computational game theory AI

  • Unique opportunity to apply game theory-based software products to the real world

  • Ability to work directly with world-leading AI experts

  • The company is already profitable

  • CMU startup in close proximity to CMU

  • Competitive compensation, including equity in a fast-moving, profitable startup

  • The company has a no-jerks policy

** Our Founder, President, and CEO, Dr. Tuomas Sandholm, will be available to conduct interviews personally at NeurIPS between December 4th and 7th, 2025, and additional positions will be available thereafter as well. **

Global


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Qualcomm is proud to be attending NeurIPS 2025 in our home city San Diego, California! Qualcomm is powering efficient AI from edge to cloud, conducting novel foundational, platform, and applied AI research to enable intelligent computing everywhere.

We're inviting all those who have a passion for AI and are interested in opportunities in generative AI, visual AI, computer vision, and foundational machine learning to please follow the steps below.

  1. Please visit the Qualcomm NeurIPS home page by clicking the URL to apply.

  2. Register by clicking on the blue link. This allows us to identify your application as someone we met at NeurIPS.

  3. Apply to any of the linked positions on our Qualcomm NeurIPS home page. Make sure you REGISTER first before applying. Your resume will stand out.

Faculty Positions in Electrical and Electronics Engineering – Koç University, Istanbul, Türkiye

Koç University invites exceptional candidates to apply for full-time faculty positions in Electrical and Electronics Engineering. We seek outstanding researchers in all areas of electrical and electronics engineering, including artificial intelligence, machine learning, computational neuroscience, intelligent systems, and signal processing.

Applicants should have a bold, interdisciplinary research vision capable of making transformative impacts across multiple domains. Successful candidates will leverage Koç University’s state-of-the-art research ecosystem, including the Koç University İş Bank Artificial Intelligence Research Center (KUIS AI), the Translational Medicine Research Center (KUTTAM), and the Nanofabrication and Nanocharacterization Center (n2STAR). KUIS AI provides a high-performance computation facility and scholarship support for KUIS AI graduate fellows, fostering close collaboration between faculty and students.

Koç University is a leading private, nonprofit institution in Istanbul, supported by the Vehbi Koç Foundation, with English as the medium of instruction. It hosts the highest number of ERC grant recipients in Türkiye and offers exceptional opportunities for interdisciplinary collaboration across engineering, medicine, and natural sciences. We offer competitive salaries, housing support, K–12 education assistance, private health insurance, and research startup funds.

We will be attending NeurIPS 2025 — interested candidates are welcome to reach out and schedule an informal discussion during the conference at alperdogan@ku.edu.tr.

Application materials: CV, research statement, teaching statement, and three references. Deadline: March 20, 2026 (applications reviewed on a rolling basis). Apply at: https://ee.ku.edu.tr/open-positions/faculty-positions/