Equity Options Quant Strategist - Live Market-Making Impact

Trading Interview; Chicago, Northern (IL, KY); Hybrid; USD 225,000 - 275,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Discretionary bonus

Paid leave

Job summary

IMC is seeking experienced quantitative professionals to join our US Equity Options market-making business. We are a leading scaled liquidity provider in US equity options, operating a large-scale systematic trading platform spanning thousands of underlyings.

Our platform integrates quantitative research, trading strategy development, and production engineering within a collaborative environment across trading, research, and development teams.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience in quantitative research, systematic trading, or market microstructure-focused roles.
• Experience with exchange-traded products, ideally equity options.
• Strong understanding of market structure and trading system behavior.
• Demonstrated ability to conduct rigorous analysis on large, real-world datasets.
• Strong programming skills (Python required; C++ or similar preferred).
• Experience integrating research into production trading systems.

Responsibilities

• Develop and refine quantitative models that improve pricing, execution, and risk management.
• Analyze large-scale market and trading datasets to identify structural improvements.
• Design, test, and deploy strategy enhancements into production systems.
• Collaborate closely with traders, researchers, and engineers to iterate on live trading logic.
• Contribute to scalable solutions that impact a broad universe of equity options products.
• Drive research from idea generation through backtesting, implementation, and real-time monitoring.

Skills

Python

C++

Quantitative research

Job description

IMC is seeking experienced quantitative professionals to join our US Equity Options market-making business. We are a leading scaled liquidity provider in US equity options, operating a large-scale systematic trading platform spanning thousands of underlyings.

Our platform integrates quantitative research, trading strategy development, and production engineering within a collaborative environment across trading, research, and development teams.