Senior Quantitative Trading Strategist - US Equity Options

Tradermath; Chicago (IL); Hybrid; USD 213,000 - 288,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Discretionary bonus

Paid leave

Insurance

Job summary

IMC Trading is seeking experienced quantitative professionals to join our US Equity Options market-making business, a leading liquidity provider with a large-scale, collaborative platform spanning trading, research, and development teams.

You will work at the intersection of quantitative research, execution, and risk management to enhance pricing quality, execution performance, and system robustness. Base salary is $250,000 with discretionary bonus and comprehensive benefits.

Qualifications

• 3+ years of experience in quantitative research, systematic trading, or market microstructure-focused roles.
• Experience with exchange-traded products, ideally equity options.
• Strong programming skills (Python required; C++ or similar preferred).
• Background in statistics, probability, time series analysis, or optimization is strongly preferred.

Responsibilities

• Develop and refine quantitative models that improve pricing, execution, and risk management.
• Analyze large-scale market and trading datasets to identify structural improvements.
• Design, test, and deploy strategy enhancements into production systems.
• Collaborate closely with traders, researchers, and engineers to iterate on live trading logic.
• Contribute to scalable solutions that impact a broad universe of equity options products.
• Drive research from idea generation through backtesting, implementation, and real-time monitoring.

Skills

Python

C++

Statistics

Time Series Analysis

Production Trading Systems

Market Microstructure

Job description

IMC Trading is seeking experienced quantitative professionals to join our US Equity Options market-making business, a leading liquidity provider with a large-scale, collaborative platform spanning trading, research, and development teams.

You will work at the intersection of quantitative research, execution, and risk management to enhance pricing quality, execution performance, and system robustness. Base salary is $250,000 with discretionary bonus and comprehensive benefits.