Quantitative Systematic Trader – Honours and Master's 2026
A graduate role that mixes quant research with trading knowledge to develop and monitor electronic strategies. It starts with an orientation programme and includes a secondment to the Philadelphia office.
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.
- Investigate ideas in market data and look for patterns that could be signals
- Backtest signals and assess their strength
- Work with technologists to put profitable signals into production
- Monitor live strategy performance and bring feedback to researchers and traders
What they ask for
Required
- Analytical problem solving
- Logical reasoning
- Python for large datasets
- Strong communication
- Ability to work in a fast-paced setting
- Honours or master's in a quantitative field
Preferred
- C++ or other low-level languages
- Interest in strategic games
- Education
- Honours or master's degree in a quantitative field such as maths, physics, statistics, engineering, CS, operations research or economics
- Experience
- New graduates; no finance experience required
- Languages and tools
- Markets
- options
How to prepare
- Build a signal from public data and backtest it with realistic costs
- Learn the basics of option pricing, as the orientation covers it
- Practise probability and expected-value puzzles
- Write a short note defending a result to a sceptical reader
What to study
- Quantitative Research, Data and Backtesting
- Derivatives Pricing and Computational Finance
- Probability, Statistics and Financial Data
- Python for Quantitative Finance
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SelfMadeQuant wrote this summary from the employer’s public posting, last checked 6 November 2026. SelfMadeQuant isn’t affiliated with Susquehanna International Group (SIG) and doesn’t handle applications.