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Senior Quantitative Researcher - Equities

Optiver
🇨🇳ShanghaiSeniorFull-timePosted July 25, 2025

About the Role

A senior quantitative researcher role focused on Delta One equities trading. You will own the full lifecycle of systematic trading strategies and directly impact trading performance in live markets. Responsibilities include:

  • Leading alpha research: defining ideas, discovering signals, and deciding what's worth pursuing
  • Building and validating models: developing predictive models and ensuring robustness through rigorous backtesting
  • Constructing portfolios: combining signals, managing risk exposures, and optimizing for costs and capacity
  • Driving production and execution: owning team performance, ensuring strategies are implemented, tradable, and aligned with real market conditions

Requirements

  • 5+ years of experience in quantitative research or trading within equity markets
  • A strong research mindset, with hands-on experience applying machine learning / deep learning techniques to financial data
  • Proven ability to generate original ideas and take them from concept to production
  • Experience working with large-scale datasets and data pipelines

What You'll Get

  • The chance to work alongside best-in-class professionals
  • Training, mentorship and personal development opportunities
  • Daily office breakfast, lunch, snacks etc.
  • Sponsored gym membership, sports and leisure activities, plus weekly in-house chair massages
  • Regular social events, clubs and Friday afternoon drinks