Quantitative Systematic Trader | Experienced Hire
About the Role
Our Quantitative Systematic Traders connect ideas between trading, quantitative research, and technology to improve how trading decisions are made. As a true hybrid of our core disciplines, you will investigate ideas by immersing yourself in market data, leveraging mathematics, statistics, and programming. Through your research, you will discover new patterns that transform into trading signals, back test your results, and carefully analyze their performance. As your trading strategy evolves, you will discuss with other quant researchers, strategists, and traders to collect feedback and brainstorm new ideas.
Requirements
- Advanced Degree in a quantitative field such as Mathematics, Physics, Statistics, Electrical Engineering, Computer Science, Operations Research, or related discipline.
- Demonstrated excellent analytical problem-solving and logical reasoning skills.
- Exceptional communication skills, both in the ability to understand others and to make yourself clearly understood.
- Experience writing code to process and analyze large sets of data, especially in Python.
- Experience in C++ or other low-level programming languages is a plus.
- Demonstrated interest in strategic games and/or competitive activities.
- Ability to thrive in a fast-paced environment.
- Previous finance industry experience is not required, but a passion for financial problem sets with real-time impact is crucial.
What You Can Expect From Us
- Real Impact: Solve complex technical challenges alongside other quantitative systematic traders in a highly collaborative and agile environment. Directly see how your research contributions influence trading decisions, making a firm-wide impact that improves our collective performance.
- Increased Competence: Develop technical skills through a blend of research, development, and trading-related problems.
- Balanced, Collaborative Working Culture: Our non-hierarchical culture allows employees of every level to thrive together regardless of title or tenure. With industry-leading work/life balance and a casual office environment, we focus on continuous development in a way that works for you professionally and personally.
About Susquehanna
Susquehanna is a global quantitative trading firm powered by scientific rigor, curiosity, and innovation. Our culture is intellectually driven and highly collaborative, bringing together researchers, engineers, and traders to design and deploy impactful strategies in our systematic trading environment. To meet the unique challenges of global markets, we apply machine learning and advanced quantitative research to vast datasets to uncover actionable insights and build effective strategies. By uniting deep market expertise with cutting-edge technology, we excel in solving complex problems and pushing boundaries together.
What We Do
We are experts in trading essentially all listed financial products and asset classes, with a focus on derivatives trading. Through market making and market taking, we handle millions of trading transactions around the world every day, providing liquidity and ensuring competitive prices for buyers and sellers. While our presence in the market is broad, our trading desks are highly specialized, allowing for a deep understanding of the unique drivers of each asset class.