Senior Quant Trader: Options Market Making & Research
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Job summary
Wolverine Trading, based in Chicago, seeks an experienced quantitative trader/researcher to join its options market-making desk. You will help define exchange-facing algorithms and identify volatility signals in large options datasets, shaping research priorities and deployment to production.
Ideal candidates have 5+ years in research on exchange data or options pricing, strong skills in statistics and market microstructure, and a track record of delivering production-ready insights with a team
Qualifications
- 5+ years of research on large sets of exchange market data or options pricing datasets.
- Proven track record on a systematic or semi-systematic market-making desk.
- Experience with low-latency trading technology and production integration.
- Deep knowledge of exchange infrastructure and microstructure.
- Strong communication with software and hardware engineers to production.
Responsibilities
- Grow profitability by influencing the development of trading algorithms and researching options pricing signals.
- Define microstructure research initiatives and shape research infrastructure.
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Job description
Wolverine Trading, based in Chicago, seeks an experienced quantitative trader/researcher to join its options market-making desk. You will help define exchange-facing algorithms and identify volatility signals in large options datasets, shaping research priorities and deployment to production.
Ideal candidates have 5+ years in research on exchange data or options pricing, strong skills in statistics and market microstructure, and a track record of delivering production-ready insights with a team
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