Quant jobs / Optiver

Senior Quantitative Researcher – Equities

A senior researcher for Delta One equity trading in Shanghai, owning the full lifecycle of systematic strategies. Machine learning on financial data is expected.

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.

Lead alpha research and decide which ideas deserve time
Build predictive models and stress them with careful backtests
Combine signals into portfolios while managing risk, cost and capacity
Own team performance and check that strategies trade as expected
Run large datasets and data pipelines for research

What they ask for

Required

5+ years in quantitative research or trading in equities
Hands-on machine learning or deep learning on financial data
Original idea generation from concept to production
Large datasets and data pipelines
Backtesting rigour

Education: Not stated.
Experience: 5+ years in quantitative research or trading within equity markets
Markets: equities

How to prepare

Build an equity signal pipeline with proper train, validation and test splits
Study portfolio construction with transaction costs and capacity limits
Learn how machine learning models are validated on noisy financial data
Understand Delta One products such as ETFs and futures basis trades

What to study

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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.