Graduate Quant Engineer – Ultra-Low Latency Trading

IMC; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 200,000 - 210,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Discretionary bonus

Paid leave

Insurance

Job summary

IMC is seeking highly driven graduates to apply quantitative techniques and practical experimentation to the technology used by exchanges, connectivity providers, and our own systems. You will develop new strategies to outpace other market participants in ultra-low-latency trading.

The Base Salary range for the role is $200,000 with discretionary bonus and benefits. This is a full-time position starting February or August 2027 in Chicago, IL.

Qualifications

• Pursuing a CS/Engineering or related technology degree (graduation 2026–2027).
• Proficiency in at least one programming language.
• Strong quantitative and analytical abilities.
• Willingness to work full-time starting Feb or Aug 2027.

Responsibilities

• Perform quantitative research with large datasets to understand exchange technology.
• Design novel strategies to optimize IMC’s liquidity taking and quoting strategies for exchange microstructure.
• Develop ETL pipelines and algorithms in Python to optimize IMC’s ultra-low-latency trading strategies.
• Explore novel uses of frontier LLMs to accelerate data and research tasks.
• Reverse-engineer and stress-test network and systems programming technologies to understand them better.
• Collaborate closely with Traders and with Hardware and Software Engineers who will implement your ideas.

Skills

Programming language

Quantitative skills

Analytical thinking

Cross-functional

ML modeling

Education

CS/Engineering degree

Tools

Python

SQL

ML libraries

Job description

IMC is seeking highly driven graduates to apply quantitative techniques and practical experimentation to the technology used by exchanges, connectivity providers, and our own systems. You will develop new strategies to outpace other market participants in ultra-low-latency trading.

The Base Salary range for the role is $200,000 with discretionary bonus and benefits. This is a full-time position starting February or August 2027 in Chicago, IL.