Quant jobs / Optiver

Quantitative Trader / Researcher – Systematic Options Trading

A hire for a growing systematic options team at a market maker, building automated systems that trade on their own or alongside human traders. The focus is on market reactions, order placement and execution.

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.

Design and refine systematic strategies for index options
Improve order placement and execution logic
Use modelling and machine learning to draw insight from trade data
Work with developers to ship changes into automated systems
Judge strategy changes by measured trading performance

What they ask for

Required

3+ years of systematic index options trading
BS, MS or PhD in a quantitative field
Strong analytical and maths skills applied to trading
Python, C++ or similar
Working across departments with developers

Education: BS, MS or PhD in a quantitative or technical field.
Experience: 3+ years of index options experience focused on systematic trading
Languages and tools: Python
C++
Markets: options, equities

How to prepare

Study how index option market makers quote and hedge
Build a simple execution model that reacts to order book changes
Learn microstructure basics such as queue position and adverse selection
Practise turning a trading idea into a tested, deployable strategy

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