Senior Performance Researcher

Optiver ·Shanghai, China·Posted 30 September 2026

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WHAT YOU'LL DO: We look for an experienced performance researcher to join our Shanghai office. As a Performance Researcher, you will improve trading execution by studying the end-to-end path from exchange market data, through our low-latency trading systems, network and carrier infrastructure, and broker systems, to exchange responses and fills. Your main responsibilities will include: You will combine quantitative analysis, systems knowledge, and experimentation to understand complex system behavior and improve real execution outcomes. Analyze large-scale market, order, system, and network data to reconstruct the full order lifecycle and identify factors affecting latency, reliability, order responses, and fill outcomes. Develop hypotheses and design experiments; use black-box analysis and partial or indirect observations to understand complex systems with limited observability. Build analyses, prototypes, performance metrics, and monitoring tools, and measure the production impact of changes. Translate findings into engineering and connectivity priorities, working closely with traders, software and hardware engineers, network and infrastructure teams, brokers, and other external…

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