Expressions of Interest - Quantitative Research Internship, PhD (Summer 2028 -Shanghai)
Ready to accelerate your growth in one of the most fascinating and dynamic industries? Our Research Summer Internship program will give you real insights into how data and research is used to improve global financial markets. Expand your knowledge of the financial markets and solve challenging problems that could impact the way we trade. Plus, if you’ve excelled over the summer and shown us your potential, you could receive an offer to join us as a graduate quantitative researcher.
With Optiver’s internship program, your work improving the market starts today.
What you’ll do:
As a Quantitative Research Intern, you’ll work with our researchers and traders on real-life research projects, that directly impact the way we trade. Our quantitative researchers are responsible for the accuracy of our core pricing models. They work closely with our traders to analyse and improve all facets of our trading strategies.
As part of the internship, you’ll get to:
- Perform extensive analysis in order to implement new algorithms that support and improve our existing models.
- Develop risk management and portfolio optimisation tools to improve our execution algorithm.
- Work with petabytes of low latency, high-frequency market data sets.
- Collaborate with our developers to test and drive changes
