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Systematic Derivatives Trading – Associate

A trading-side role in JPMorgan's Systematic Derivatives business, running systematic option strategies and automated liquidity provision in equity and index options. You would work with quant research and technology teams.

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.

Help manage systematic options strategies across equity and index derivatives
Monitor delta, gamma, vega and liquidity risk plus P&L drivers
Build tools to improve execution quality and risk management
Work with quant research to test and deploy new strategies
Work with technology on automated market-making and hedging systems

What they ask for

Required

Interest in applying technology and AI to trading
Listed options market and exchange mechanics
Derivatives pricing and risk concepts
Python and data analysis libraries
Statistics and probability
Explaining market behaviour with data
Strong risk discipline

Preferred

Options market-making experience
Systematic strategy research
Market microstructure
Quantitative degree

Education: Quantitative degree preferred (maths, statistics, CS, physics or engineering)
Experience: Experienced professional; years not stated
Languages and tools: Python
Markets: equities, options

How to prepare

Learn Greeks and how a market maker hedges a book of listed options
Build a Python tool that decomposes option P&L into delta, gamma, vega and theta
Study listed options market structure and exchange mechanics
Analyse an options dataset for volatility surface behaviour

What to study

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