Quant jobs / Virtu Financial

Quantitative Strategist

A research role for PhD-level candidates building predictive models and trading strategies on mixed teams of traders, quants and engineers at Virtu.

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.

Build predictive models from market data
Research and implement new strategies and review existing ones
Develop risk models for portfolios
Automate research workflows and data visualisation

What they ask for

Required

PhD in a quantitative field
Strong mathematics and problem solving
Python and/or C/C++
Expressing ideas mathematically and algorithmically
Strong grades
Communication

Education: PhD in science, maths, engineering or another quantitative field
Experience: Not stated; entry-level PhD profile
Languages and tools: Python
C
C++

How to prepare

Practise probability, statistics and mental-maths problems
Build a signal research notebook with clean out-of-sample testing
Brush up C++ and Python for the programming test
Prepare to describe your research clearly to non-specialists

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 Virtu Financial and doesn’t handle applications.