Quant jobs / Da Vinci Trading

Experienced Quant

A hire for experienced quants at Da Vinci, a proprietary trading firm, who may work as trader, researcher or developer. The role covers strategy, models or trading systems depending on background.

What you’d work on

Our reading of the posting: what a new hire in this role would most likely spend their first months on.

Trade, market make and monitor risk in real time (trader path)
Analyse large datasets and build and backtest models (researcher path)
Build and tune high-performance trading systems (developer path)
Explore new markets and improve existing strategies
Work with traders and developers to move strategies into production

What they ask for

Required

3-10 years in a quant role at a prop firm or similar
Strong maths, physics, engineering or computer science background
Understanding of markets or algorithmic trading
Python and C++
Analytical mindset
Communication and teamwork

Education: Strong academic background in maths, physics, engineering, computer science or similar
Experience: 3-10 years in a quantitative trading, research or development role
Languages and tools: Python
C++

How to prepare

Build and backtest a market-making or short-term strategy and report realistic costs
Practise C++ for performance-critical code, plus Python for research
Study market making, inventory risk and adverse selection
Prepare examples from past work showing measurable improvements
Revise probability, statistics and mental-maths for trading interviews

What to study

The HFT Quantitative Researcher roadmap sets out the stages for this kind of role, with free resources for each.

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SelfMadeQuant wrote this summary from the employer’s public posting, last checked 6 November 2026. SelfMadeQuant isn’t affiliated with Da Vinci Trading and doesn’t handle applications.