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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.