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As a Compliance Analyst at Optiver, you will be responsible for ensuring the business operates in compliance with local regulations and market requirements. You will review trade surveillance alerts, analyze market data, design controls, and propose compliance improvements. The role requires an academic degree, 2+ years of relevant experience, and strong analytical skills in financial markets and technology.

Seeking a SPX Floor Trader Trainee at Optiver, a global market maker focusing on injecting liquidity and improving market conditions. Responsibilities include communicating trade information, analyzing floor data, coordinating with traders, and tracking trading strategies. Requires a bachelor's degree, mathematical aptitude, knowledge of financial markets, and communication skills. Programming experience in Python or VBA preferred. Legal authorization to work in the US is necessary. Offers diverse workplace, performance-based bonuses, ownership over initiatives, and various benefits like paid vacation days, commuting expenses, health insurance, and more.

FP&A Tech Manager responsible for financial modeling, analysis, and decision-making for the Technology Organization. Collaborate with stakeholders to facilitate investment decisions and budgeting. Drive improvement in FP&A processes and develop new KPIs and management reporting. Work with global teams to enhance technology management reporting. Strong financial background and experience in technology required.

As a Graduate FPGA Engineer at Optiver in Chicago, you will work on designing and maintaining proprietary systems for financial markets using FPGA technology. Responsibilities include accelerating network infrastructure, researching low-latency techniques, and collaborating with a multidisciplinary team.

As an FPGA Engineer Intern at Optiver, work on projects impacting trading systems with a focus on performance and efficiency. Collaborate with senior Engineers and Traders, tackle real-world problems, and contribute to the development of cutting-edge FPGA technology.

The Accounting Manager at Optiver will be responsible for managing financial reporting, audits, regulatory reporting, and process improvements. This role requires strong analytical skills, attention to detail, and the ability to mentor junior team members.

Join Optiver's Finance team in Chicago as an Accountant. Responsibilities include preparing journal entries, reconciliations, allocations, and supporting cash activities. Requires 2-3 years of corporate accounting experience and a Bachelor's degree in Accounting. Strong Excel skills and CPA certification preferred. Must be detail-oriented and have excellent communication and analytical skills. Legal authorization to work in the U.S. is required.

The Trading Operations Production Support Engineering team at Optiver is responsible for maintaining and scaling the trading systems, deploying and monitoring proprietary trading applications, providing technical support to high frequency trading floor, and automating system management tooling. They work on improving system stability, support deployments of new products, and collaborate with different teams within the organization.

Ensure optimal functioning of a large fleet of UNIX servers through deployment, maintenance, monitoring, and operation. Lead automation initiatives and research new technologies for continual improvement. Requires 3 years of experience in Linux/Unix server environments, strong Python coding skills, and familiarity with infrastructure-as-code and virtualization.

Seeking a Machine Learning Performance Engineer to work on AI initiatives and futures trading strategies. Responsibilities include building training and inference pipelines, enhancing deep learning frameworks, identifying performance bottlenecks, and collaborating with researchers and engineers. Must have expertise in deep-learning frameworks, computer architecture, and programming in C++ and Python. Nice to have experience with JAX ecosystem, programming for GPUs, Linux system programming, large-scale distributed training, and contributions to open-source projects.

Optiver is seeking a Machine Learning Performance Engineer to work on AI initiatives, focusing on Machine Learning infrastructure and trading strategies. Responsibilities include building pipelines, enhancing frameworks, and collaborating with teams. Expertise in deep learning frameworks, computer architecture, and C++/Python programming is required.

Site Reliability Engineer role at Optiver Chicago focusing on designing, deploying, and supporting large-scale Linux/Unix server environments with an emphasis on reliability, automation, and performance monitoring.

Design, deploy, monitor, and operate a large fleet of Linux/Unix servers in a high-performance computer environment. Implement solutions, automate processes, and ensure system reliability and performance.

Quantitative Research Intern working alongside a team of researchers to develop and enhance trading models at Optiver. Engage in practical research challenges with a real-world impact on trading decisions. Opportunity to join full-time or return as an intern based on performance. Commitment to diversity and inclusion.

Develop, refine, and implement algorithmic trading strategies using statistical models and machine learning. Leverage big data technologies to analyze trading strategies and financial instruments. Build stochastic models for financial derivatives valuation. Collaborate with a research team to predict market movements.

Our Senior Software Engineers lead large technical projects, help set the direction for our trading infrastructure, and serve as role models within the organization.

Designing pipelines, building monitoring infrastructure, developing tooling, collaborating with global teams, and mentoring junior team members in a tech-driven trading firm.

Optiver is seeking a Network Engineer to contribute to the design, optimization, and maintenance of globally distributed networks supporting proprietary trading systems. Responsibilities include network optimizations, automation, upgrades, capacity planning, and WAN functionality. Requires expertise in network performance, monitoring, LAN/WAN technologies, routing protocols, security, and Python scripting.

Hardware Engineers at Optiver build hardware-based trading systems ranging from low latency algorithms to high bandwidth computation. They are responsible for owning all aspects of the development process from ideation to implementation creating bespoke solutions to our complex trading problems.

The Institutional Trader at Optiver will be responsible for managing relationships with external counterparties, interpreting large flows to inform trading strategies, identifying new market opportunities, and collaborating with internal teams to contribute to trading and pricing decisions.