Quantitative Trading Strategist, Equity Options Markets

IMC Trading; Illinois; On-site; USD 230,000 - 270,000; Full time

Job summary

IMC Trading seeks experienced quantitative professionals to join its US Equity Options market-making team. You will work at the intersection of quantitative research, execution, and risk management to improve pricing quality, execution performance, and system robustness in live markets.

Collaborate with traders, researchers, and engineers to design, test, and deploy production strategy enhancements, analyzing large data sets to identify improvements and drive end-to-end performance gains across

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience in quantitative research or market microstructure roles.
• Strong programming skills in Python; C++ experience preferred.
• Experience with exchange-traded products, ideally equity options.

Responsibilities

• Develop and refine quantitative models for pricing, execution, and risk management.
• Analyze large market and trading datasets to identify structural improvements.
• Design, test, and deploy strategy enhancements into production systems.
• Collaborate with traders, researchers, and engineers on live trading logic.
• Contribute to scalable solutions affecting a broad universe of equity options.
• Lead research from idea through backtesting, implementation, and monitoring.

Skills

Python

C++

Quant research

Job description

IMC Trading seeks experienced quantitative professionals to join its US Equity Options market-making team. You will work at the intersection of quantitative research, execution, and risk management to improve pricing quality, execution performance, and system robustness in live markets.

Collaborate with traders, researchers, and engineers to design, test, and deploy production strategy enhancements, analyzing large data sets to identify improvements and drive end-to-end performance gains across