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Graduate Quant Researcher

IMC Trading
🇳🇱AmsterdamStudentFull-timePosted July 31, 2026

About the Role

Your IMC journey as a Graduate Quantitative Researcher begins with a six-week Global Trainee Programme led by seasoned engineers and traders. During this traineeship, you will deepen your knowledge about trading, financial markets, IMC's trading strategies, and proprietary trading systems. Following the programme, you will join a team of quantitative researchers, where you'll play a key role in exploring and shaping strategies in global markets.

  • Collaborate with traders to evaluate existing models and suggest improvements
  • Build customised analysis tools to explore new research ideas
  • Apply rigorous quantitative techniques to solve complex problems
  • Design mathematical models based on innovative trading ideas
  • Implement new models and put them into production

Requirements

  • In your ultimate year of a MSc or PhD in mathematics, physics, astrophysics, or a related quantitative field, and are seeking to join IMC full-time in February or August 2027
  • Experience in a programming language (e.g. Python, Matlab or C++)
  • First-class quantitative and analytical skills, with excellent attention to detail
  • A genuine interest in financial markets (no prior knowledge or experience is required)

What You'll Get

  • Six-week Global Trainee Programme led by seasoned engineers and traders
  • Dedicated mentor, an experienced quant researcher at IMC
  • Continued training back at your local office