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
- The opportunity to work alongside best-in-class professionals from over 40 different countries.
- Ownership over initiatives that directly solve business problems.
