Posted 3d ago•Chicago, United States
Quant Performance Engineer
MiddleOn-site (Chicago)Salary undisclosed
Required Skills
PythonNext.js
Job Description
Technology is at the heart of modern electronic trading. IMC is seeking highly driven graduates to apply quantitative techniques and practical experimentation to the technology used by exchanges, connectivity providers, and our own systems. You will develop new strategies to outpace other market participants in the highly competitive world of ultra-low-latency trading.
Your Core Responsibilities:
- Perform quantitative research with large datasets to understand exchange technology.
- Design novel strategies to optimize IMC’s liquidity taking and quoting strategies for exchange microstructure.
- Develop ETL pipelines and algorithms in Python to optimize IMC’s ultra-low-latency trading strategies
- Explore novel uses of frontier LLMs to accelerate data and research tasks
- Reverse-engineer and stress-test network and systems programming technologies in order to understand them better than the manufacturers.
- Collaborate closely with Traders and with the Hardware and Software Engineers who will implement your ideas.
Your Skills and Experience:
- Current university student graduating between September 2026 – July 2027 that is pursuing a degree in Computer Science, Engineering, or a related tec
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