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Quantitative Developer - Derivatives

Chicago💼 Full-time💰 $175,000–$175,000🗓 2026-06-26 → 2026-09-26

Core

Design and implement high-performance numerical algorithms for pricing and risk, building and improving models that reflect real market behavior for live derivatives pricing and risk systems.

Role type

Senior IC quantitative developer (derivatives pricing & risk)

Builds

Core components of the firm's pricing library (models, calculation graphs, central infrastructure) for HFT market making systems

Domain

Financial services, derivatives, options, volatility, fixed income, ETFs, FX

Deliverable

production ML models | product features

Required skills

Derivatives pricing (options, volatility), C++, Java, numerical algorithms, PDE methods, numerical analysis, system design, collaboration with quants

Preferred skills

PDE methods, numerical analysis (stability, convergence, error propagation)

Technologies

C++, Java

Responsibilities

Design and implement high-performance numerical algorithms for pricing and risk; Build and improve models balancing accuracy, stability, and latency; Own core components of the pricing library; Work closely with quants and engineers to ensure models are robust and production-ready; Contribute across the full lifecycle from research to performance optimization; Write clean, maintainable production code

Seniority

Senior, hands-on IC

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