Quantitative Researcher

IMC·Chicago, United States; New York, United States·Posted 30 October 2026

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IMC Americas, Inc. has multiple openings for Quantitative Researcher (REQ ID: 4528527101 ) in Chicago, IL and New York, NY. Your Core Responsibilities Collaborate with traders, developers, and researchers to evaluate, validate, and improve quantitative models used in IMC’s proprietary trading strategies through statistical analysis, simulation, and empirical research (10%). Design quantitative methods to gather and analyze market data, trading statistics, or new data sources and use the result of that research as the basis for new trading strategies (10%). Build research-oriented computational tools, simulations, visualizations, and backtesting frameworks to evaluate quantitative hypotheses and measure model performance before production deployment (10%). Formulate trading hypotheses as mathematical, statistical, and machine-learning models; prototype algorithms and coordinate with developers to integrate validated research into trading systems (10%). Apply statistical inference, optimization, numerical methods, and financial mathematics to diagnose model behavior, improve forecasting accuracy, and address complex research problems in proprietary trading (15%). Identify gaps in…

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