Jobs at Optiver

Conduct IT and information security audits across infrastructure, applications, governance, controls, and trading systems. Plan risk-based engagements, assess controls, document findings, draft reports, advise stakeholders, support broader audits, and improve audit methodologies. Collaborate with global teams and management across multiple offices, with international travel required. The role requires substantial IT audit experience, relevant certifications, strong governance and risk knowledge, and U.S. work authorization without sponsorship.

Develop and manage HPC and storage infrastructure across on-premises and cloud environments. Troubleshoot operating system, storage, networking, and infrastructure issues; support CPU, GPU, and specialized compute systems; contribute to infrastructure innovation; and collaborate with software engineers to deliver an integrated research platform for quantitative and options trading research.

Advises stakeholders on US tax implications of trading strategies, financial products, markets, transactions, entity structures, and cross-border initiatives. Develops tax positions with external advisors, assesses tax risks and opportunities, supports tax controversy matters, and contributes to governance and policy development. Collaborates with global tax, legal, finance, technology, trading, and leadership teams in a fast-paced financial services environment.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Work with researchers, engineers, and traders to analyze large-scale market and order-flow data, develop predictive machine learning and deep-learning models, and build statistical and stochastic models for pricing, forecasting, and risk management. Contribute to AI-driven research projects, test strategies, and apply modern research techniques and AI-enabled workflows to accelerate discovery and improve trading performance during a supervised, apprentice-style internship.

Work as a mentored software engineering intern building production trading applications. Contribute to performance, reliability, and scalability improvements, collaborate with engineers and traders, and ship real-world code.

As a Quantitative Researcher, develop and refine automated options trading strategies, focusing on alpha generation and optimizing trading performance through research and novel techniques.

Join Optiver as a graduate FPGA engineer to design ultra-low-latency hardware and network interfaces for high-frequency trading. You'll develop FPGA/ASIC digital designs, research low-latency techniques, and collaborate with traders, software developers, and infrastructure engineers to integrate hardware with cutting-edge server platforms.

Work with a mentor to design and accelerate low-latency, high-speed FPGA hardware for trading systems. Tasks include hardware design, researching low-latency techniques, integrating FPGAs with server hardware, and collaborating with traders and software engineers on production-grade solutions.

Join Optiver's Equity Options Trading team to perform fundamental research-driven trading. You'll work on the trading desk, collaborate with traders, researchers and developers, identify event-driven trade opportunities, perform probabilistic scenario analysis, and help grow the fundamental research function. Extensive training provided and ability to run research-driven positions from day one.

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.