Quantitative Researcher: US Equity Options Analytics

Wolverine Trading; Chicago (IL); On-site; USD 100,000 - 150,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Highly competitive salary & bonus

Generous paid time off and flexible S

Medical, dental, vision, life, and 9/5

Parental Leave

401K and Roth 401K

Profit sharing plan

Disability insurance

Free breakfast and lunch

On-site gym

Frequent company outings

Charitable giving support

Job summary

Wolverine Trading in Chicago, IL is seeking a Quantitative Researcher to advance liquidity dissemination across US Equity Options markets. You will join an experienced team and contribute to an analytics suite through research and experimentation.

You'll learn market micro-structure, build production testing pipelines, document results, and collaborate with trading and engineering staff to drive feature enhancements. Competitive compensation and benefits.

Qualifications

• Background in a quantitative field.
• Knowledge of basic statistical concepts such as regression analysis.
• Experience with Python and common data science packages.
• OO programming is a plus but not required; willingness to learn C#.
• Willingness to learn about networking and FPGA basics.

Responsibilities

• Gain domain expertise on US Equity Option exchange micro-structure.
• Propose, run, and maintain production testing pipelines within an experimental framework.
• Curate, document, and present experimentation results to trading and engineering staff.
• Generate ideas for trading feature enhancement and parameter configurations through post trade analytics.
• Work with large tick databases to build and maintain core datasets designed to increase team productivity and facilitate strategy enhancements.

Skills

Quantitative background

Regression analysis

Python

Data science packages

Object-oriented programming

C# (willingness to learn)

Networking concepts

FPGA basics

Strong communication

Job description

Wolverine Trading in Chicago, IL is seeking a Quantitative Researcher to advance liquidity dissemination across US Equity Options markets. You will join an experienced team and contribute to an analytics suite through research and experimentation.

You'll learn market micro-structure, build production testing pipelines, document results, and collaborate with trading and engineering staff to drive feature enhancements. Competitive compensation and benefits.