Expressions of Interest - Graduate Quantitative Trader 2027
OptiverAbout the Role
As a Graduate Quantitative Trader, you'll develop cutting-edge strategies that directly impact and improve the global financial markets. You'll manage a trading book as part of a team of expert traders and work alongside researchers and engineers to design, develop and enhance trading strategies, fully immersing yourself in the world of market making.
Your responsibilities include trading while developing robust pricing models and algorithms, building tools and conducting analysis to take trading strategies to the next level, and working collectively with talented traders, engineers and researchers to solve complex problems. You'll have autonomy to make decisions that create immediate impact from your first day on the trading floor, with continuous training and mentorship throughout your first 12 months.
Requirements
- Final year university student or recent graduate
- An Australian or New Zealand Citizen, Australian Permanent Resident or able to provide evidence of full working rights
- Lateral thinker, with a passion for quantitative problems and working in collaborative, dynamic environments
- Holds superior logical reasoning skills
- Pragmatic mindset, logical problem-solving skills and mathematical precision
What You'll Get
- A performance-based bonus structure unmatched anywhere in the industry, combining profits across desks, teams and offices into a global profit pool
- The opportunity to work alongside best-in-class professionals
- Training, mentorship and personal development opportunities
- Gym membership, plus weekly in-house chair massages
- Daily breakfast, lunch and an in-house barista
- Regular social events