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The mission of Speechify is to make sure that reading is never a barrier to learning.
Over 50 million people use Speechify’s text-to-speech products to turn whatever they’re reading – PDFs, books, Google Docs, news articles, websites – into audio, so they can read faster, read more, and remember more. Speechify’s text-to-speech reading products include its iOS app, Android App, Mac App, Chrome Extension, and Web App. Google recently named Speechify the Chrome Extension of the Year and Apple named Speechify its 2025 Design Award winner for Inclusivity.
Today, nearly 200 people around the globe work on Speechify in a 100% distributed setting – Speechify has no office. These include frontend and backend engineers, AI research scientists, and others from Amazon, Microsoft, and Google, leading PhD programs like Stanford, high growth startups like Stripe, Vercel, Bolt, and many founders of their own companies
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Our Software Engineers are focused on developing innovative platforms and systems that drive our trading and research efforts. While performance is a critical component of our software, we are focused on building a platform that is massively scalable, flexible, and forward-looking. Our environment is highly collaborative, fostering innovation and growth.
As a C++ Software Engineer with Vatic, you will work directly with traders, researchers, and other developers to engineer cutting edge, ultra-low latency, high throughput trading systems. You will play a key role in taking projects from conception to deployment. You will drive innovation for the frameworks upon which our trading applications are based, as well as benchmarking and tuning critical software services to achieve optimum performance.
We employ a team of talented engineers who have been recognized as leaders in our field. We are passionate about hiring the best and brightest, empowering them with the tools and freedom they need to be successful.
If you possess the following, we would love to explore what is available for you with our team:
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As an AI Researcher at Vatic Labs in Abu Dhabi, you will research and develop innovative AI-driven quantitative trading strategies. You will explore vast amounts of market and alternative data, inventing and applying a new generation of state-of-the-art technologies that are inspired by large language models, deep neural networks, transformers, and advanced prompt engineering methods to discover and capitalize on trading opportunities.
The nature of the problems we work on is challenging, hence we hire some of the world's top AI talent to develop novel AI methods and trading strategies. Our team of talented researchers and technologists has been recognized as leaders in their field. Our distinguished researchers have been widely cited for their publications in top-tier, peer-reviewed scientific journals. We are passionate about hiring the best and the brightest, empowering them with the tools and mentorship needed to be successful. Our environment is highly collaborative and open, sharing AI and trading expertise across team members and fostering innovation and growth.
If you possess all or most of the following, we would love to explore what is available for you with our team:
At Vatic, we’re serious about our work—but we also believe in balance, growth, and having fun along the way. Here’s what you can expect:
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Vatic Labs is a quantitative trading firm in New York and Abu Dhabi. Our traders, AI researchers, and technologists collaborate to develop autonomous trading agents and cutting edge technology.
As an AI Research Intern at Vatic Labs, you will contribute to the research and development of fully autonomous trading agents with some of the brightest researchers, traders, and technologists in the world. As a part of your internship at Vatic Labs, you will explore vast amounts of market data, research different AI approaches, apply cutting edge machine learning algorithms and statistical approaches to this data to discover and capitalize on trading opportunities.
We are seeking researchers who have demonstrated the ability to generate impactful research in their academic pursuits. We foster an open and academic environment, where collaboration is the key to our success. Drawing from our collective backgrounds in Computer Science, Mathematics, Statistics, and Physics, we apply rigorous analytics to test hypotheses derived from years of successful quantitative trading. We are passionate about hiring the best and the brightest, empowering them with the tools and mentorship needed to be successful.
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As a Quantitative Researcher at Vatic, you will research and develop innovative quantitative strategies. You’ll explore large-scale market data, applying novel machine learning and artificial intelligence methods to discover and capitalize on trading opportunities. The problems are challenging; we hire top talent, empower them with tools and mentorship, and foster a highly collaborative, open environment. Our researchers are recognized leaders whose work is widely cited in top-tier, peer-reviewed journals.
What You’ll Do
· Formulate and test hypotheses on vast, multi-modal market datasets.
· Build and evaluate ML/AI models (e.g., classification, clustering, regression) to identify alpha.
· Design robust research pipelines and backtests; iterate from idea → signal → portfolio contribution.
· Collaborate with engineers to productionize strategies and improve research tooling.Required Qualifications
· PhD or Master’s (earned or in progress) in Computer Science, Statistics, Mathematics, Electrical Engineering, Physics, or related fields.
· Relevant industry experience, or experience as a Postdoc/Faculty in a scientific lab.
· Proven ability to analyze large datasets with rigorous ML/AI approaches.
· Demonstrated ability to generate impactful research (academic or professional).
· Deep knowledge of time-series analysis.
· Advanced proficiency in a numerical language; Python (NumPy/SciPy stack) preferred.
· Exposure to C++ or a related compiled language.
· Interest in financial markets.Nice to Have
· Experience with portfolio construction, risk modeling, and transaction cost analysis.
· Familiarity with distributed computing frameworks and research workflow tooling.
· Publications or open-source contributions in ML/stats or related areas.What We Value
· First-principles thinking, high ownership, and a bias for rigorous experimentation.
· Clear communication and collaboration across research and engineering.
· Curiosity, humility, and continuous learning.
At Vatic, we’re serious about our work—but we also believe in balance, growth, and having fun along the way. Here’s what you can expect:
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