CareerPlan

Junior Quantitative Developer & Strategist

Chicago, ILFull-time$145k2026-07-25 → 2026-11-11

Core

Design and develop production code of trading strategies including pricing models, execution logic, and performance optimization for an options market-maker.

Role type

Junior IC quantitative developer & strategist

Builds

Low-latency trading strategies and mathematical models for options market-making

Domain

Financial markets / Derivatives / Quantitative trading

Deliverable

production ML models

Required skills

Python, object-oriented programming, linear algebra, introductory statistics

Preferred skills

parallel programming, numerical methods, optimization, signal processing, machine learning, high-performance computing

Responsibilities

Design and develop production code of trading strategies; Analyze and incorporate market signals in trading systems; Advance existing codebase and propose new solutions and improvements

Seniority

Junior, hands-on IC