Optiver is looking to develop, refine, and implement algorithmic trading strategies to improve the market by injecting liquidity, providing accurate pricing, increasing transparency, and stabilizing the market.
Requirements
- Solid foundation in mathematics, probability, and statistics
- Excellent research, analytical, and modeling skills
- Proficiency in any programming language
- Experience in machine learning, with practical applications in time-series analysis and pattern recognition
Responsibilities
- Develop, refine, and implement algorithmic trading strategies.
- Leverage vast data sets to construct complex models to predict market movements.
- Develop innovative solutions that are foundational to Optiver’s trading strategies.
- Using statistical models and machine learning to develop trading algorithms.
- Leveraging big data technologies to analyze high-frequency trading strategies, market microstructure and financial instruments to identify trading opportunities.
- Building stochastic models to determine the fair value of financial derivatives.
- Combining quantitative analysis and high-performance implementation to ensure the efficiency and accuracy of pricing engines and libraries.
Other
- Bachelor’s or Master’s degree in Mathematics, Statistics, Computer Science, Physics, or a related STEM field, with outstanding academic achievements
- Expected graduation date by mid-2026 and available to start full-time employment upon graduation
- Independent research experience
- Strong interest in working in a fast-paced, collaborative environment
- Fluent in English with strong written and verbal communication skills
- A performance-based bonus structure
- The opportunity to work alongside best-in-class professionals from over 40 different countries.
- Ownership over initiatives that directly solve business problems.
- 401(k) match up to 50% and fully paid health insurance.
- 25 paid vacation days alongside market holidays.
- Extensive office perks, including breakfast, lunch and snacks, regular social events, clubs, sporting leagues and more.
- Optiver does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, physical or mental disability, or other legally protected characteristics.
- Optiver is supportive of US immigration sponsorship for this role.
- We accept one application per role per year. If you have previously applied to this position during this season and have been unsuccessful, you can reapply once the next recruitment season begins in 2026.
