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Quantitative Trader

talismanMundelein, Illinois🇺🇸United States

Quick overview

SeniorityMid Senior
Employment typeFull Time
Work modeHybrid
LocationMundelein, Illinois, United States
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Job description

Job Description

Our client is a privately held, growing proprietary trading firm with an established derivatives market-making business. They are adding an experienced quantitative trader to build and run systematic delta-one strategies, with full ownership of the book.

The role

  • Research, develop and deploy systematic delta-one alpha strategies, from signal idea through to production
  • Take full responsibility for risk and PnL, making real-time trading decisions
  • Work closely with a small, collaborative team of traders, researchers and engineers
  • Continually refine models, signals and execution to improve performance

What they're looking for

  • 5+ years in quantitative research and systematic trading, with a clear track record of building signals, models and analytics that made it into production
  • Deep knowledge of market microstructure and execution
  • Strong mathematical and numerical ability, and a broad quantitative toolkit for hard problems
  • Sound market intuition alongside quantitative rigour
  • A team-first mindset, persistence in problem solving, and a drive to keep improving
  • A real interest in markets and trading

What's on offer

  • Direct ownership of strategy and PnL in a lean, low-bureaucracy environment
  • The chance to build out a strategy area at a firm that is actively expanding
  • Base range + performance bonus / PnL share

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