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Quantitative Trading Strategist – Equity Options

A strategist role in IMC's US equity options market-making business, improving how automated trading decisions are designed, tested and deployed. It sits across research, execution and risk on a large systematic platform.

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.

Refine models for pricing, execution and risk
Analyse large trading datasets to find structural improvements
Design, test and deploy strategy changes into production
Collaborate with traders, researchers and engineers on live logic

What they ask for

Required

3+ years in quant research, systematic trading or microstructure
Exchange-traded products experience, ideally equity options
Market structure and trading system behaviour
Rigorous analysis of large datasets
Python required
Experience moving research into production

Preferred

C++ or similar
Statistics, probability, time series or optimisation background

Education: No degree level stated; statistics or optimisation background preferred
Experience: 3+ years in quant research, systematic trading or microstructure roles
Languages and tools: Python
C++
Markets: options

How to prepare

Build an equity options pricing and quoting simulation
Study US options market structure, including multi-exchange quoting and NBBO
Practise analysing fills and adverse selection
Review the path from research code to a production release

What to study

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