Quantitative Trader/Researcher – Systematic Options Trading

Optiver ·Chicago, Illinois, United States·Posted 16 March 2026

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Optiver is expanding its Systematic Options Trading Team and seeking exceptional Quantitative Researchers and Traders to drive its next phase of growth. You’ll join a team at the forefront of designing and optimizing our automated systems that work autonomously or alongside our operational options traders. With significant resources, cutting-edge infrastructure, and a collaborative environment, you'll help shape the direction of our trading systems and execution models. What you’ll do Design, develop, and refine systematic trading strategies to optimize market reactions, order placement, and execution in order to maximize trading performance Utilize modelling, machine learning, and other techniques to gather insights from data in this pursuit What you’ll get You’ll join a culture of collaboration and excellence, surrounded by curious thinkers and creative problem-solvers. Motivated by a passion for continuous improvement, you’ll thrive in a supportive, high-performing environment alongside talented colleagues, collectively tackling some of the toughest challenges in the financial markets. In addition, you’ll receive: The opportunity to work alongside best-in-class professionals…

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