Junior Quantitative Trader

$200,000 USD Discretionary Bonus Onsite WORKING Location: Chicago, Illinois - United States Type: Permanent Our client is a proprietary trading firm specializing in electronic options market making. They take a technology-driven approach, designing and operating automated, scalable systems to provide liquidity across markets. Their team spans trading, engineering, and business operations, working together to build and support the systems that power the firm. They emphasize data-driven decision

{"description": " Your Core Responsibilities Collaborate with Traders to evaluate and enhance the performance of IMC's existing proprietary trading models using advanced mathematical and analytical methods. Design quantitative methods to gather and analyze historical market data, trading statistics or new data sources and use the result of that research as the basis for new trading strategies. Translate trading strategies into mathematical models, algorithms, and other complex computational pr

{"description": " Your Core Responsibilities Collaborate with Traders to evaluate and enhance the performance of IMC's existing proprietary trading models using advanced mathematical and analytical methods. Design quantitative methods to gather and analyze historical market data, trading statistics or new data sources and use the result of that research as the basis for new trading strategies. Translate trading strategies into mathematical models, algorithms, and other complex computational prog

{"description": " About Akuna: Akuna Capital is an innovative trading firm with a strong focus on collaboration, cutting-edge technology, data driven solutions, and automation. We specialize in providing liquidity as an options market-maker - meaning we are committed to providing competitive quotes that we are willing to both buy and sell. To do this successfully, we design and implement our own low latency technologies, trading strategies, and mathematical models. Our Founding Partners first co