Quant jobs / Da Vinci Trading

Graduate Quant

A graduate programme at Da Vinci, a proprietary trading firm, where you start as a quant trader, researcher or developer. Training takes place in Amsterdam first.

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.

Analyse market data to design new trading strategies
Build tools that turn analysis into trading inputs
Monitor trades and refine existing strategies
Evaluate new markets for opportunities
Build and run low-latency trading systems (developer path)

What they ask for

Required

Technical degree in maths, physics, engineering, econometrics or quant finance
Programming in Python, MATLAB, R or C++
Passion for financial markets and modelling
Turning theory into practice
Understanding of risk and reward
Communication and teamwork

Education: Technical degree in maths, physics, engineering, econometrics, quant finance or similar
Experience: New graduates
Languages and tools: Python
MATLAB
R
C++

How to prepare

Build and backtest a simple trading strategy, and write up what went wrong
Practise probability, expected value and market-making puzzles
Choose a language: Python for research or C++ for performance, and build a small project in it
Learn market basics: order books, options and risk-reward
Practise explaining a modelling decision clearly in under two minutes

What to study

The 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.