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Associate Member of Trading Staff

An entry-level trading operations role that rotates across credit, equity, FX and derivatives desks at an ML-driven fund. It supervises systematic strategies and the execution that puts research output into the market.

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.

Watch execution algorithms and portfolio risk during market hours
Work with brokers and counterparties on trading issues
Write tools and automation that cut errors and outages
Rotate across asset-class desks to learn microstructure
Give research staff feedback on how strategies behave live

What they ask for

Required

Strong interest in markets
Python or R
Unix-like operating system
Statistics
Data analysis and visualisation
Attention to detail

Education: Bachelor's degree in a scientific or quantitative discipline
Experience: Early career; no set years stated
Languages and tools: Python
R
Markets: credit, equities, fx, options

How to prepare

Learn how execution algorithms (VWAP, TWAP, participation) behave and how to judge their quality
Study market microstructure basics across equities, FX and credit
Build a dashboard that monitors a simulated trading book
Get comfortable in the Unix shell and git

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 Voleon and doesn’t handle applications.