Hybrid Quant Trader - Equity Derivatives & Market Making

Global Trading Systems; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 175,000 - 260,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Daily Meal Allowance

Equinox Corporate Membership Rate

Snacks

Office Game Room

Casual Dress

Job summary

Global Trading Systems is seeking a Quantitative Trader – Equity Derivatives to join our Wholesale Market Making team in New York. You will manage systematic trading strategies across traditional and DeFi-connected markets, focusing on risk control and execution quality.

Collaborate with quants and engineers to refine models, test strategies, and expand into new markets. Hybrid work policy applies with in-office days and some remote work.

Qualifications

• 3+ years professional trading experience in equities futures, single-stock ETFs, options, or other derivatives, including live positions and risk.
• Strong understanding of pricing, inventory management, hedging, and market microstructure.
• Strong mathematical and quantitative skills, including probability, statistics, and linear algebra.
• Experience using Python for trading-data analysis, performance attribution, risk monitoring, and strategy evaluation.
• Demonstrated ability to make independent trading decisions and exercise sound judgment under changing market conditions.
• Experience translating quantitative models into practical trading decisions and improvements.

Responsibilities

• Actively managing and monitoring systematic trading strategies across centralized and decentralized markets, with live parameter adjustments and managing position sizing, hedging, and capital allocation.
• Analyzing P&L, execution quality, transaction costs, and capital utilization to identify opportunities to improve strategy performance.
• Triaging position discrepancies and execution issues, collaborating with engineers to adapt to evolving market conditions.
• Collaborating with quants and engineers to evaluate, test, and refine strategies, develop analytical tools, and support expansion into new markets.

Skills

Python for trading-data analysis

Quantitative reasoning

Independent trading judgment

Experience with researchers andEnginee

Tools

Python

Job description

Global Trading Systems is seeking a Quantitative Trader – Equity Derivatives to join our Wholesale Market Making team in New York. You will manage systematic trading strategies across traditional and DeFi-connected markets, focusing on risk control and execution quality.

Collaborate with quants and engineers to refine models, test strategies, and expand into new markets. Hybrid work policy applies with in-office days and some remote work.