Generative AI Engineer

Marex is a diversified global financial services platform, providing essential liquidity, market access and infrastructure services to clients in the energy, commodities and financial markets.

The Group provides comprehensive breadth and depth of coverage across four core services: Market Making, Clearing, Hedging and Investment Solutions and Agency and Execution. It has a leading franchise in many major metals, energy and agricultural products, executing around 50 million trades and clearing 205 million contracts in 2022. The Group provides access to the world’s major commodity markets, covering a broad range of clients that include some of the largest commodity producers, consumers and traders, banks, hedge funds and asset managers.

Marex was established in 2005 but through its subsidiaries can trace its roots in the commodity markets back almost 100 years. With 36 offices worldwide, the Group has over 1,800 employees across Europe, Asia and America.

Marex has unique access across markets with significant share globally both on and off exchange. The depth of knowledge amongst its teams and divisions provides its customers with clear advantage, and its technology-led service provides access to all major exchanges, order-flow management via screen, voice and DMA, plus award-winning data, insights and analytics.

The Technology Department delivers differentiation, scalability, and security for the business. Reporting to the COO, Technology provides digital tools, software services and infrastructure globally to all business groups. Software development and support teams work in agile ‘streams’ aligned to specific business areas. Our other teams work enterprise-wide to provide critical services including our global service desk, network and system infrastructure, IT operations, security, enterprise architecture and design.

The IT Group runs our enterprise-wide services to end users and actively manages the firm’s infrastructure and data. Within IT, Marex Technology has established a Data team that enables the firm to leverage data assets to increase productivity and improve business decisions, as well as maintain data compliance. The Data Team encompasses Data Analysis, Data Architecture, Data Intelligence and Machine Learning expertise. In recent years, they have developed a Data Lakehouse architecture, that is relied upon by different departments across the firm. Marex now seeks to strengthen its capabilities further and elevate the role of data in the operating models of Marex's businesses, directed by a strategy that aims to:

1. Decentralise access for discovering and consuming data. Empower the data-savvy, entrepreneurial business leaders and citizen developers with the tools to interrogate data sets to explore and unlock opportunities for new or data-driven products and services.
2. Provide a market-beating digital experience for clients by providing greater insight into their own data.
3. Build communities of practice around data management. Increase awareness and raise the profile of the data-driven opportunities for the firm.
4. Ensure that the capabilities and tools of the Data Intelligence team infuse with the goals and operating models of each business within the firm.
5. Ensure paid-for data is used efficiently, in a manner that aligns with our commercial agreements, and that such usage can be audited with any associated costs fairly attributed across data beneficiaries.

As a Generative AI Engineer within the AI Engineering team, this role offers you a unique opportunity to shape the future of AI applications in Marex. You will gain exposure across a range of specialisms, working on cutting-edge solutions, building robust infrastructure and supporting enterprise-wide AI initiatives.

The AI Engineering team forms part of Marex’s Data Team, and as such you will work closely with data specialists across the wider team, ensuring that AI applications are engineered robustly and handle data in a secure, controlled and well governed manner.

Responsibilities:

1. Design, develop, and maintain our GenAI infrastructure, creating a foundation that enables all Marex team members to leverage GenAI solutions effectively.
2. Support of production GenAI applications, including our flagship Marex Knowledge Base, an advanced in-house question-answering engine.
3. Establish best practices and standards for GenAI development within the organisation, helping teams adopt and implement GenAI solutions.

Skills and Experience:

Essential:

• Strong analytical and critical thinking abilities with exceptional problem-solving skills.
• Advanced mathematical background, particularly in areas relevant to machine learning and AI.
• Basic understanding of machine learning concepts and algorithms (e.g., supervised and unsupervised learning, neural networks).

Technical Skills:

• Experience with data manipulation and analysis using tools like Pandas and NumPy.
• Basic knowledge of cloud platforms like AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud.

Desirable:

• Contributions to open-source projects, particularly in the AI/ML space.
• Published research in artificial intelligence or related technical journals.
• Experience with AWS cloud infrastructure and Infrastructure as Code (particularly Terraform).

Education:

Likely to have a Masters degree or PhD in a data-intensive field.

Competencies:

• Problem-Solving: Strong analytical thinking and ability to break down complex problems into manageable solutions.
• Adaptability: Willingness to learn new tools, frameworks, and methodologies as needed.
• Collaboration: Ability to work effectively in teams, communicate clearly, and contribute to group problem-solving.
• Attention to Detail: Ensuring accuracy and precision in code and data handling.

If you’re forging a career in this area and are looking for your next step, get in touch!

Marex is fully committed to being an inclusive employer and providing an inclusive and accessible recruitment process for all. We will provide reasonable adjustments to remove any disadvantage to you being considered for this role. We value the differences that a diverse workforce brings to the company. We welcome applications from candidates returning to the workforce. Also, Marex is committed to avoiding circumstances in which the appearance or possibility of conflicts of interest may exist within the hiring process.

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