Hybrid Quant Trader - Equity Derivatives & Market Making

Global Trading Systems; Village of Pelham (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 seeks a Quantitative Trader – Equity Derivatives to join our Wholesale Market Making team in New York. You will manage systematic trading strategies across centralized and decentralized markets, focusing on risk management and execution quality.

Collaborate with quants and engineers to test models, analyze P&L, and optimize performance. This hands-on role offers ownership of live trading risk and growth of our market-making business.

Qualifications

• 3+ years professional trading experience in equities, futures, single-stock ETFs, options, or other derivatives.
• Strong pricing, inventory management, hedging, and market microstructure knowledge.
• Strong mathematical and quantitative skills (probability, statistics, linear algebra).
• Experience using Python for trading-data analysis, performance attribution, risk monitoring, and strategy evaluation.
• Ability to make independent trading decisions and exercise sound judgment under changing market conditions.
• Experience working with researchers and engineers to translate quantitative models into practical trading decisions.

Responsibilities

• Actively manage and monitor systematic trading strategies across centralized and decentralized markets on a day-to-day basis, adjusting parameters and managing position sizing, hedging, and capital allocation.
• Analyze P&L, execution quality, transaction costs, and capital utilization to identify opportunities to improve strategy performance.
• Triaging position discrepancies and execution issues, and working 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

Quant trading

Python for trading

Risk management

Market microstructure

P&L analysis

Tools

Python

Job description

Global Trading Systems seeks a Quantitative Trader – Equity Derivatives to join our Wholesale Market Making team in New York. You will manage systematic trading strategies across centralized and decentralized markets, focusing on risk management and execution quality.

Collaborate with quants and engineers to test models, analyze P&L, and optimize performance. This hands-on role offers ownership of live trading risk and growth of our market-making business.