Jobs at Optiver

Lead sourcing, evaluation, and execution of investments in financial market infrastructure and digital assets. Manage full transaction lifecycle including due diligence, financial modeling, structuring, negotiation, and legal execution. Build industry relationships, refine investment theses with internal stakeholders, and represent the firm externally.

Design and deliver technical interview assessments and training programs for interns, graduates, and experienced hires. Collaborate with engineering and recruiting teams to align hiring with on-the-job performance, integrate new software and AI practices into curricula, analyze outcomes to improve assessments, and grow the Education function to raise engineering quality firm-wide.

Ten-week internship working on trading floor automation and operations for market-making. Build tools, data pipelines, and automated workflows; investigate production issues; use AI-assisted workflows; collaborate with traders, researchers, and engineers; own a project from definition through implementation under mentorship.

As an FPGA Engineer, you will design and implement high-speed hardware for trading systems, collaborate with traders and developers, and advance low-latency techniques.

Lead and mentor a team of engineers, manage global infrastructure, drive automation, ensure system reliability, and influence technical direction.

The Equity Index Macro Analyst will provide research and trade recommendations on macro events affecting equity index markets, working closely with traders to analyze flow dynamics.

Investigate surveillance alerts and analyze market/trading data to identify market abuse and compliance risks. Improve surveillance controls and automation, support regulatory implementation, advise stakeholders, and collaborate across Compliance, Trading, Technology, Risk, and Operations.

Lead end-to-end recruitment for experienced technical roles: partner with engineering leaders on hiring strategy, source passive candidates, assess and interview, negotiate offers, monitor pipeline health with data-driven insights, and deliver a high-quality candidate experience.

Own and maintain Coupa and Rossum platforms, provide L1/L2 finance systems support, triage tickets, manage incidents and SLAs, automate repetitive work with AI tooling, create runbooks and KB articles, coordinate changes across finance systems, support enhancements and mentor colleagues to keep platforms stable, scalable, and well-configured for global finance stakeholders.

Design, build, and operate production-grade AI systems (LLM applications, agent platforms, evaluation frameworks) using Python and modern AI frameworks. Translate ambiguous business problems into scalable, reliable AI solutions, define success metrics and evaluation pipelines, integrate with internal systems and third-party services, and continuously monitor and improve performance, reliability, cost, and safety in production.

The Marketing Manager will lead initiatives for US priority audiences, develop tailored marketing plans, and manage content and social media activations.

The Senior Sourcing Lead will drive hardware sourcing initiatives, manage supplier relations and risks, and mentor the procurement team globally.

Build and maintain trading automation, data pipelines, and analytics to support market making; own reliability and incident response; partner with traders, researchers, and engineers to reduce manual work and scale improvements.

Design, operate, and own Optiver's global Microsoft 365 platform across collaboration, messaging, identity, and device access. Lead architecture, simplify hybrid complexity, implement observability and self-healing automation, run BAU operations, and deliver global rollouts and governance.

Lead global AI education and enablement programs across trading, technology, and operations: design curricula and one-off training, build train-the-trainer networks, partner with vendors, define metrics to measure impact, convert learning into product input for the internal AI platform, and manage executive stakeholders to drive AI adoption.

As an Equity Analyst, you will work with traders to evaluate market opportunities, perform analyses on events, and mentor junior analysts, leveraging your sector knowledge and fundamental analysis skills.

Conduct applied quantitative research on market and order-flow data: develop and validate predictive, statistical, and stochastic models using machine learning and deep learning, test hypotheses, and deploy ideas into live trading environments to identify trading opportunities and manage risk.

The Senior Sourcing Lead will lead cloud and AI sourcing strategies, negotiate hyperscaler agreements, and work with stakeholders to drive cost optimization.

Summer internship focused on quantitative research and trading: analyze market data, develop models and tools, run simulations, apply programming (Python), and learn from traders, researchers, and engineers to support trading decision-making.

Join as a graduate software engineer to build low-latency trading applications. Participate in an eight-week Global Academy, pair with a mentor, collaborate with engineers and traders, design well-architected systems, apply AI-enabled tools, and solve complex real-world problems to support rapid market decision-making.