2027 Shanghai Performance Researcher Summer Internship
OptiverAbout the Role
As our Performance Researcher Intern, you'll spend your summer delving into complex, data-driven problems at one of the world's leading tech-driven trading firms. Under the guidance and mentorship of industry experts, you'll apply your critical mindset and strong technical skills to drive measurable improvements to trading execution.
Through a mix of trading lectures, coursework and hands-on project experience, you'll deepen your understanding of the quantitative trading industry and master the practical skills needed to drive our trading success by the end of the 8-week internship. If you've excelled over the summer, you'll receive an offer to return as a Graduate Performance Researcher.
What you'll do:
- Investigate real execution-performance problems across market data, low-latency trading systems, networks, broker infrastructure, and exchanges.
- Analyze market, order, system, and network data to reconstruct event flows and uncover performance patterns.
- Develop hypotheses and run statistical experiments or black-box analysis to understand complex system behavior.
- Build analyses, prototypes, metrics, and visualizations to test ideas and quantify results.
- Work with traders, researchers, and engineers to evaluate and implement improvements.
Requirements
- University student graduating in 2028 or after 2027 September
- Pursuing or recently completed a technical degree such as Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electronic or Communication Engineering, or a related field
- Strong foundations in computer systems and quantitative reasoning, with depth in areas such as operating systems, networking, computer architecture, software/hardware systems
- Curious, analytical, and detail-oriented, with strong problem-solving and learning ability
- Evidence of technical depth through research, systems or networking projects, internships, or substantial personal projects
What You'll Get
- Optiver-covered flights and accommodation for the duration of the internship
- Training, mentorship and personal development opportunities
- Gym membership, plus weekly in-house chair massages
- Daily breakfast, lunch and in-house barista
- Regular social events
- The opportunity to work alongside diverse and intelligent peers in a rewarding environment