Quantitative Trading Strategist - Equity Options
Core Responsibilities
- Develop and refine quantitative models that improve pricing, execution, and risk management.
- Analyze large-scale market and trading datasets to identify structural improvements.
- Design, test, and deploy strategy enhancements into production systems.
- Collaborate closely with traders, researchers, and engineers to iterate on live trading logic.
- Contribute to scalable solutions that impact a broad universe of equity options products.
- Drive research from idea generation through backtesting, implementation, and real-time monitoring.
Skills And Experience
- 3+ years of experience in quantitative research, systematic trading, or market microstructure-focused roles.
- Experience working with exchange-traded products, ideally equity options.
- Strong understanding of market structure and trading system behavior.
- Demonstrated ability to conduct rigorous analysis on large, real-world datasets.
- Strong programming skills (Python required; C++ or similar preferred).
- Experience integrating research into production trading systems.
- Background in statistics, probability, time series analysis, or optimization is strongly preferred.
About Us
IMC is a global trading firm powered by a cutting-edge research environment and a world-class technology backbone. Since 1989, we’ve been a stabilizing force in financial markets, providing essential liquidity upon which market participants depend. Across our offices in the US, Europe, Asia Pacific, and India, our talented quant researchers, engineers, traders, and business operations professionals are united by our uniquely collaborative, high-performance culture, and our commitment to giving back. From entering dynamic new markets to embracing disruptive technologies, and from developing an innovative research environment to diversifying our trading strategies, we dare to continuously innovate and collaborate to succeed.
Pay
The Base Salary for the role is $250,000.