Our Index Options team chases edge in volatility valuation, detailed execution, and fast technology. We evolve our strategy through both iterating and innovating: improving existing systems, algorithms, or processes, as well as creating new ones that augment our framework. We are a highly collaborative group of generalists and specialists. Together we strive to have deep expertise, ownership, and innovation in the topic areas that are important to winning in the Index Options space.
Your Core Responsibilities:
- Maximize PNL through applying and adapting current trading strategies and algorithms, or researching and designing new trading strategies and algorithms.
- Take responsibility and ownership early in your time here to drive initiatives or strategies forward
Your Skills and Experience:
- 2+ years of Index Options trading experience
- BS, MS, or PhD preferably in mathematics, science, financial engineering, or computer science
- Experience with programming, preferably in Python
- Highly analytical and seek to make or validate decisions in a data-driven manner
- Working in a fast-paced and competitive environment
- Curious and self-motivated to keep making progress
- Working in a team environment where multiple specialists will rely on each others’ expertise
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.
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, and Asia Pacific, 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.