Quantitative Trader — Fast-Paced, Collaborative Desk

Five Rings LLC - Careers; New York (NY); On-site; USD 270,000 - 330,000; Full time

Job summary

Five Rings LLC is seeking a Campus Full Time Quantitative Trader in New York for 2027. You’ll work closely with senior traders and quants to test and refine trading models, analyze risks, and contribute to live market strategies.

The role emphasizes rapid learning, collaboration, and hands-on development in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• Graduating winter 2026 or spring/summer 2027.
• Quantitatively focused.
• Thrive in a highly collaborative and fast-paced environment.
• Quick learner.
• Intellectually curious.
• Detail-oriented.

Responsibilities

• Work with senior traders and quants to analyze risks and rewards and explore new strategies.
• Collaborate with software developers to build and optimize trading models.
• Develop ideas and analyses and integrate them into trading strategies and systems.

Skills

Quantitative aptitude

Collaborative

Fast-paced environment

Quick learner

Intellectually curious

Detail-oriented

Education

Graduating winter 2026 or spring/summer 2027

Job description

Campus Full Time 2027 - Quantitative Trader

New York

About Five Rings

Five Rings is a proprietary trading firm founded with a vision of combining strategy, innovation and technology to succeed in today’s global markets. With offices in New York, Boca Raton, London and Amsterdam, Five Rings trades in various domestic and international markets, both established and esoteric. Our team constantly seeks new opportunities, analyzes their risks and rewards, and creates strategies and tools to capitalize on them.

We have an open culture and encourage the flow of knowledge and ideas between all areas of the firm.

About the Role

Traders manage their unique strategies in rapidly evolving live markets. They tune model parameters to reflect prevailing conditions, execute trades based on model recommendations, evaluate the real-time feedback provided by market participants’ reactions, and reincorporate this information into their models in a continuous feedback loop.

Five Rings gives people as much responsibility as quickly as it can be earned. From day one, as a new Quant Trader (QT), you will gain unrivaled experience both on the desk and in the classroom.

• New hires work closely with senior traders – analyzing risks and rewards, exploring new strategies, collaborating with quants and software developers to build and optimize trading models.
• Quant Traders work independently and with others to develop ideas and analyses, and integrate them into our trading strategies and systems.

About You

• Graduating in winter of 2026 or spring/summer of 2027
• Quantitatively-focused
• Thrive in a highly collaborative and fast-paced environment
• Quick learner
• Intellectually curious
• Detail-oriented

Annual Base Salary: $300,000. Total compensation packages consist of base salary and a discretionary bonus.

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