High-Frequency Futures Quant Trader & Alpha Research

Trading Interview; Chicago, Northern (IL, KY); Hybrid; USD 150,000 - 200,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Competitive salary

Generous paid time off

100% health coverage

401K and Roth 401K

Profit sharing

On-site gym

Free breakfast and lunch

Company events

Job summary

Wolverine Trading, founded in 1994, seeks highly skilled individuals to join a research effort focused on generating high frequency alphas for futures markets. You will influence the direction of a newly formed team and participate in data analysis, back-testing, and production implementation.

The role requires 2+ years of alpha development experience, CME knowledge, and strong statistics/ML expertise. Competitive salary, plus comprehensive benefits and on-site collaboration in Chicago.

Qualifications

• At least 2+ years of experience generating or implementing short term trading alphas into production trading strategies.
• Knowledge of CME and related market microstructure required.
• Advanced knowledge of modern statistical and machine learning techniques.
• Proficiency in Python, R, or MATLAB.
• Proficiency in at least one statistical package and one ML package in the listed languages.
• Demonstrated experience working with tick data.
• Experience developing software in an object-oriented language is a plus.

Responsibilities

• Conduct financial data analysis on large datasets to generate profitable trading alphas.
• Back-testing and production performance monitoring.
• Contribute to in-house data analysis packages and research framework development.
• Acquisition of new data sets and cleaning/maintenance of datasets.
• Contribute to futures trading technology stack architecture.

Skills

Python

R

MATLAB

Statistics

Machine learning

Tick data

Quantitative analysis

Education

Bachelor's degree in Statistics, Computer Science, Mathematics or Engineering

Job description

Wolverine Trading, founded in 1994, seeks highly skilled individuals to join a research effort focused on generating high frequency alphas for futures markets. You will influence the direction of a newly formed team and participate in data analysis, back-testing, and production implementation.

The role requires 2+ years of alpha development experience, CME knowledge, and strong statistics/ML expertise. Competitive salary, plus comprehensive benefits and on-site collaboration in Chicago.