Role Overview

The Interactive Brokers Global Tax Team serves an important role in the success of our business. We mitigate risk and create value for our business and our customers. We partner with many functions across the company, including Technology, Business Development, Accounting, Treasury, Customer Service and Marketing, to assist our business in achieving our commitment of delivering value through technological innovation and providing our clients with unprecedented access to global markets at the lowest cost. The Global Tax Team sets the tax policy for the company, and identifies, develops, implements, and manages tax strategies to help minimize our overall tax cost. We advise on the tax aspects of our product offerings to customers, manage tax audits, and ensure financial reporting and tax returns are filed timely and accurately.

We are seeking a highly skilled tax professional to join our Global Tax team with a focus on customer taxes in European markets. This role will report to the Director of UK & APAC Tax and work alongside other members of the Global Tax Team, particularly the U.S.-based information reporting & withholding tax team, to ensure comprehensive global coverage of customer tax obligations. While the initial focus will be on designing and developing customer tax statements for European retail clients, this role requires robust experience and solid technical understanding of information reporting and withholding tax requirements across European countries.

The ideal candidate will have strong technical tax knowledge of investment products, deep expertise in European tax filing obligations by retail customers, and knowledge of information reporting and withholding obligations by brokers, and the ability to translate complex tax requirements into operational processes and customer communications. A successful candidate will be a collaborative team player who is entrepreneurial, detail-oriented, and an excellent communicator.

Responsibilities

Customer Tax Statement Development & Delivery

• Design, develop, and maintain customer tax statements for European retail clients covering a wide range of investment products including stocks, bonds, mutual funds, ETFs, futures, options, and other derivatives
• Ensure tax statements comply with local tax reporting requirements and formats across multiple European jurisdictions
• Review and validate tax calculations for accuracy, including capital gains/losses, dividend income, interest income, withholding taxes, and tax reclaim information
• Partner with Technology teams to implement and enhance automated tax statement generation processes
• Create customer-facing documentation and guidance materials explaining tax statement information and tax reporting obligations

Product & Venue Analysis

• Research and analyse new and existing product offerings and new venue launches to determine customer tax implications, information reporting requirements, and withholding tax obligations for European markets
• Provide technical guidance on tax treatment and reporting obligations for various investment products and transaction types
• Draft functional requirements for information reporting and withholding tax features to software development teams
• Develop and maintain tax calculation methodologies for complex products and cross-border transactions

Research, Monitoring & Continuous Improvement

• Monitor, research, and analyse new laws and changes to existing laws that impact customer information reporting, withholding tax, and tax statement requirements across European countries
• Assess impact of legislative changes on IBKR’s processes and systems and communicate requirements to relevant stakeholders
• Identify and design system improvements that automate processes related to customer tax documentation, information reporting, withholding tax, and tax statement generation
• Develop and document standard operating procedures for information reporting, withholding tax operations, and tax statement preparation
• Assist with research, development, and integration of new tax technologies, including tax data collection and automation
• Contribute to special projects related to customer tax reporting, withholding, and technology enhancements

Qualifications, Skills & Attributes

Required:

• Minimum of 8-10 years of experience in tax with strong focus on tax treatment and impact to customers from investment activities, preferably in financial services, brokerage firms, asset management, Big 4 public accounting, or tax advisory
• Bachelor’s degree in Accounting, Finance, Taxation, or related field; professional tax qualification (CTA, ADIT, or equivalent) strongly preferred
• Robust technical knowledge and operational experience in European information reporting and withholding tax requirements, including:
• Country-specific reporting obligations and forms in major European jurisdictions
• Withholding tax rules, rates, and treaty relief procedures
• Customer tax documentation requirements and validation processes
• Regulatory reporting frameworks (CRS, DAC reporting, etc.)
• Strong technical knowledge of tax treatment for retail investors across various client tax profile and various investment products including:
• Equities and bonds (domestic and cross-border)
• Mutual funds, ETFs, and collective investment schemes
• Derivatives (futures, options, CFDs, warrants)
• Foreign exchange transactions
• Corporate actions (dividends, interest, stock splits, mergers, spin-offs)
• Solid understanding of capital gains taxation, dividend taxation, interest taxation, and withholding tax rules in European countries
• Knowledge of cross-border taxation issues, tax treaty provisions, and beneficial ownership concepts
• Experience drafting functional requirements for tax technology systems
• Excellent attention to detail with strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Proficiency in Excel and ability to work with large datasets
• Strong written and verbal communication skills with ability to explain complex tax concepts clearly to both technical and non-technical audiences
• Ability to work independently and manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment
• Proven ability to collaborate effectively with technology teams and translate tax requirements into system specifications

Preferred:

• In addition to English, fluency in a major European language such as German or French is a big plus
• Advanced degree such as a law degree (J.D., LL.M.) or equivalent legal qualification or professional certifications such as CTA (Chartered Tax Adviser), ADIT (Advanced Diploma in International Taxation), ATT, or local equivalent
• Experience with automated tax reporting and withholding systems and tax technology platforms
• Direct experience in brokerage operations and investment product mechanics
• Experience with tax reporting and withholding in multiple European countries (Germany, France, Netherlands, Italy, etc.)
• Knowledge of financial transaction taxes in European markets
• Experience managing tax audits or penalty abatement processes
• Basic knowledge of U.S. GAAP tax accounting (ASC 740-10)

Key Competencies

• Detail-oriented with commitment to accuracy and compliance
• Strong technical tax knowledge combined with practical operational application
• Collaborative team player with ability to work across departments and geographies
• Customer-focused mindset with service orientation
• Adaptable and comfortable with changing priorities and regulatory landscapes
• Process improvement and automation orientation
• Strong project management capabilities
• Entrepreneurial approach to problem-solving
• Excellent consensus builder

Benefits:

• Career support and development
• Salary commensurate with experience
• Performance-based discretionary cash bonus scheme
• Discretionary stock grant
• Hybrid working model*
• Above statutory annual leave, increasing with service
• Daily company-paid lunch and healthy snack options throughout the day (when working from the office)
• Corporate events

*on successful completion of the probation period

Position: Field Applications Scientist I, EMEA

Position Type: Full-Time

Department: Scientific Support

Location: DACH region (Germany / Austria / Switzerland). Remote. Must be close to a major airport (within 50 kms).

Experience: MS required; 4+ years experience in a Field Applications role 

Position Summary

Watchmaker Genomics (WMG) is inviting applications for the full-time position of Field Applications Scientist I, EMEA (remote) based in the DACH region.

This position reports to the Associate Director, Field and Automation Support and will be mainly responsible for providing field technical support for Watchmaker’s Next-Gen Sequencing (NGS) and precision enzyme product portfolios. This position will support the EMEA technical team by providing pre- and post-sales technical and scientific support, including presenting technical content to customers and distributors, co-travel with sales team members, attending and/or presenting at conferences and assisting with various marketing activities. This position is field based, with up to 75% travel within EMEA (potential for international travel outside EMEA). 

Prior experience with providing field application support is required. The successful candidate will be self-motivated, proactive, and thrive in a dynamic, fast-paced working environment contributing directly to our company culture and success.

The position is expected to have a deep technical understanding of our current product portfolio, maintain knowledge of current and new NGS products, workflows-associated applications, competitor products and NGS automation support offerings, and identify and escalate changes in the market dynamics. This position is also accountable for providing customer feedback on WMG products, in addition to identifying unmet customer needs that will enable the development of new and innovative products.

Responsibilities

• Responsible for providing pre- and post-sales technical and scientific support, both onsite and remote, for customers and distributors across WMG’s NGS and precision enzyme product portfolio. 
• EMEA-based travel (up to 75%) activities including co-travel with sales team members, meetings with key customers, providing training and troubleshooting, and participating in trade shows/conferences. Possible opportunity for further international travel.
• Provides deep product knowledge to solve customer challenges. Triages issues, troubleshoots investigations, and identifies solutions.
• Creation of training material, and presenting technical content to new or current customers or distributors.
• Inform and implement processes as a part of our EMEA-field based scientific support organization.
• Maintain expert-level knowledge of current and new NGS products and workflows, our precision enzyme portfolio and associated applications, competitor products and NGS automation support offerings. 
• Provide customer and market feedback on WMG products; Identify and communicate unmet customer needs that will aid in the development of new and innovative products.
• Work closely with the commercial team to identify and support collaborations with leading research institutions and industry partners to accelerate the sales cycle, including both pre-sales and post-sales troubleshooting. 
• Support marketing activities including generation of customer-facing technical content (i.e. posters, app/tech notes, white papers, webinars) as well as participating in and presenting at trade shows/conferences.
• Participate in sales, marketing, and product strategy meetings when appropriate. 
• Follow best practices and documentation requirements for customer-related activities and events in CRM.
• Additional duties as required within the remit and responsibilities of the role.

Required Qualifications and Experience

Relevant experience providing field-based applications support for next-generation sequencing (NGS) experiments and/or other advanced genomics applications. Relevant experience includes working in high-throughput sequencing labs developing, optimizing and troubleshooting NGS workflows both manually and on automated platforms and managing large sequencing projects. 

Qualified candidates will have a proactive approach with a can-do attitude, and be great communicators with a high level of self-motivation. Candidates will also have a strong desire to continually improve, learn and collaborate to help WMG stay at the forefront of exciting new applications spaces. Candidates will be able to demonstrate a high standard experience to our customer base, excel in the art of troubleshooting, and take ownership and pride in their work.

Candidates will have the courage to initiate discussions with customers to challenge the current "status quo" and have the confidence to drive change and adoption of new concepts. Full product training will be provided.

The following skills and experience are requirements for the position:

• MSc in Genetics, Molecular Biology, Biochemistry or related field
• 4+ Years experience within NGS field applications 
• Advanced knowledge of and practical experience with experimental design, applications/assay development, NGS library preparation, PCR, qPCR, good lab practices, and troubleshooting. Automation knowledge of NGS assays is a plus. 
• Ability to travel up to 75% of time 
• Strong customer consultative skills which includes application of scientific knowledge and analysis, exceptional customer engagement, and fostering of customer relationships
• High self-motivation and must have demonstrated ability to work in a collaborative team environment
• Experience with CRM software (particularly Salesforce.com) highly desirable
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills
• Fluent in English (required), multiple languages is a plus (German, preferred)

Application Requirements 

To apply for the position, please submit the following in a PDF format on watchmakergenomics.com: 

• Letter of motivation (upload where it says cover letter)
• Resume or Curriculum vitae, highlighting relevant qualifications and experience

Applications without a Letter of Motivation will not be considered.

Applications will be accepted on a rolling basis and the position will remain open until filled; however, early submission is encouraged as review will begin immediately.

If selected to participate in the interview process, the names and contact information of three professional references who are able to assess your suitability for the position in terms of the specified requirements will be requested.

*** NO RECRUITMENT AGENCIES PLEASE

We are only accepting direct applications for this position. We are not working with external recruiters or agencies at this time. Unsolicited resumes or candidate submissions from third-party recruiters will not be considered and will be deemed the property of Watchmaker Genomics.

*** WE ARE AN EQUAL OPPORTUNITY/AFFIRMATIVE ACTION EMPLOYER

Watchmaker Genomics is committed to being an equal opportunity employer and creating a culturally diverse environment. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability status, age, or veteran status or any other characteristics as protected by applicable law..

This position may be subject to pre-employment checks, including driving history check, drug screening and a background check for any convictions directly related to its duties and responsibilities. All pre-employment checks will comply with all applicable federal, state, and local laws.

The Role

The Lead Researcher in Quantum Machine Learning will be a member of Terra Quantum's AI Applied Research team. This team is at the forefront of conducting both fundamental and applied research in the field of quantum machine learning. Although the Lead Researcher will focus on innovating in quantum machine learning, the role involves translating research findings into practical algorithmic software solutions. The Lead Researcher is expected to closely monitor and analyse scientific and industrial trends and needs across short-term, mid-term, and long-term horizons, specifically within the quantum technology and machine learning sectors, to guide the development and implementation of hybrid quantum-classical algorithms.

Reporting directly to the Director of AI, the Lead Researcher in Quantum Machine Learning plays a pivotal role in driving excellence within their team. They are not only detail-oriented but also possess a remarkable capacity for enthusiasm. By demonstrating commitment and passion for the mission, they inspire their team members to contribute to making quantum technologies widely accessible and to effect positive change globally.

The Responsibilities

The Lead Applied Researcher should expect to work in the following Quantum Machine Learning Team activities.

• Fundamental research in quantum machine learning
  • Developing quantum machine learning algorithms for different data processing tasks, e.g. time series, routing and planning, image, graph data, or natural language processing
  • Keeping up with state-of-the-art approaches in quantum machine learning
  • Analysing parametrised quantum circuits in their capacity to learn via a hybrid quantum-classical optimization loop
  • Utilizing metrics of, e.g., the Fisher information matrix, the effective dimension, and Fourier terms accessibility for parametrized quantum circuit ansatz analysis
  • Improving the trainability of parametrised quantum circuits through layerwise batch-entropy regularization and similar techniques
  • Interpreting and explaining quantum machine learning models. Analysing the flow of information through different architectures of quantum neural networks
  • Researching and understanding where the quantum brings the benefit to machine learning
  • Developing data encoding and data processing techniques for different types of quantum computers
  • Assisting in writing patent draft applications
  • Writing research papers for scientific journals

• Efficient implementation of quantum machine learning algorithms
  • Executing quantum machine learning algorithms on QPUs, e.g. of QuEra, IonQ, Rigetti, and IBM Q
  • Adjusting and improving implementation of hybrid quantum neural networks for different QPUs
  • Exploring and testing the best ways to hybridize classical machine learning solutions with quantum machine learning
  • Understanding the way to implement an efficient interaction of hardware (CPU, GPU) and software (PyTorch, Pennylane)
  • Assisting in the development of our quantum machine learning SDK
  • Optimising, at least theoretically, the code of hybrid quantum-classical machine learning solutions for faster execution

• Supporting industry projects implementation
  • Bringing in novel ideas based on industry needs in time-series, routing and planning, GenAI, and natural language processing tasks
  • Brainstorming on possibilities of quantum machine learning algorithms applications to our client’s industry problems
  • Working on finding a theoretical or empirical advantage of using hybrid quantum-classical machine learning in industrial problems
  • Assisting in writing applied industry research papers for scientific journals

The Requirements

The Lead Applied Researcher is expected to have several qualifications depending on the area of activity in quantum machine learning.

• PhD in computer science, physics, mathematics, electrical engineering, or equivalent subject is required
• Publication record in quantum machine learning, or variational quantum algorithms is required
• Advanced expertise in one or more quantum programming languages (Qiskit, Q#, Pennylane, Cirq, Quipper, Scaffold, tket) is required
• Advanced experience working with variational quantum algorithms for machine learning is required
• Experience working with the classical machine learning algorithms is required
• Computational learning theory expertise is optional
• Expert knowledge in Python is optional
• Expert knowledge in Pytorch and TensorFlow is optional
• Experience in programming for GPUs is optional
• Experience in working with QPUs is optional
• Goal-oriented, analytical and the ability to work independently
• Flexible, proactive, and creative with the ability to work in the team
• Highly motivated and resilient with the ability to work interdisciplinary
• Proficiency in written and spoken English
• Applicants must have the legal right to live and work in the European Union or Switzerland. Unfortunately, we are unable to offer visa sponsorship for this role.