Jobs at Akuna Capital

One-week, in-person micro-internship introducing options trading: crash courses on risk management, game theory, and decision making; hands-on trading simulations; desk shadowing; lectures, networking, and social events. Transportation, accommodation, and a competitive stipend provided.

As a Quant Strategist, you will develop and enhance trading strategies using quantitative expertise, focusing on programming, analysis, and market signals collaboration.

Invite to join Akuna Capital's Talent Community for first access to new roles, events, and company updates. Communications are limited; resumes are kept on file and candidates contacted for roles matching their experience.

As a Quantitative Researcher, you will develop sports pricing capabilities by designing data pipelines, calibrating pricing models, and deploying models into trading strategies.

As a Junior Quantitative Researcher, you'll design data capture pipelines, develop pricing models for sports contracts, and collaborate with trading teams to deploy these models into production.

10-week C++ software engineering internship working on low-latency, multithreaded, distributed trading systems. Interns design, implement, and maintain components, collaborate with Quant and Trading, and deliver projects from ideation through production while using performance profiling, debugging tools, and modern C++ techniques.

10-week Chicago internship applying machine learning and statistical methods to develop trading strategies, design optimization algorithms for portfolio construction, and build quantitative models of market behavior. Interns extend existing research and explore new topics while implementing models and algorithms in Python alongside mathematicians and technologists.

Develop and implement statistical and machine learning trading strategies and quantitative models. Design optimization algorithms for portfolio construction and explore new research opportunities within derivatives and market behavior.

Develop and prototype production trading code (pricing models, execution logic, performance optimizations), analyze and incorporate market signals, and collaborate with researchers, traders, and engineers to improve trading systems.

10-week quant intern will design and implement production trading code, build pricing and execution models, analyze market signals, optimize performance, and collaborate with researchers, traders, and engineers to improve trading systems.

Work on high-performance, low-latency C++ systems for trading: maintain core systems, implement lower-risk features, execute individual projects, and collaborate with Quant and Trading. Focus areas include concurrency, networking, profiling, and performance tuning while supporting multithreaded, asynchronous, and distributed architectures.

10-week Python software engineering internship building high-performance, distributed systems for trading and post-trade/data engineering. Interns own projects, collaborate with engineers and traders, and implement scalable data capture, analysis, and exchange gateway solutions. Opportunity to present results at program end.

10-week FPGA hardware engineering internship designing and implementing digital logic for low-latency, high-performance systems. Work with Hardware and C++ engineers, own a project, build testable FPGA designs (Verilog/SystemVerilog/VHDL), and present results. Focus on speed, automation, and trading-system performance improvements.

Join the UI team for a 10-week summer internship to design, build, test, and maintain real-time C# .NET desktop trading applications. Collaborate with traders, quants, and engineers, implement unit and integration tests, evaluate UI technologies, and participate in Agile/Scrum and application support processes. Interns own a project and present outcomes at program end.

10-week full-stack web internship building real-time trading applications. Collaborate with traders, quants, and engineers using React, TypeScript, and Python. Own a project, write unit/integration tests, evaluate new technologies, and participate in Agile/Scrum and support shadowing. Present final work at program end.

Join Akuna as an entry-level Python software engineer to build high-performance, low-latency trading and data systems. Work with traders and engineers on distributed systems, data capture, and analytics while contributing clean, testable code and learning domain-specific trading infrastructure.

10-week platform engineering internship building and automating scalable, reliable hybrid-cloud platform systems. Interns design, implement, and test production infrastructure, collaborate with platform teams, and own a project to improve platform capabilities.

Design, implement, and operate hybrid-cloud infrastructure and platform services. Automate infrastructure (IaC), manage Kubernetes (EKS and on-prem), provision distributed systems (Spark, Kafka, databases), build CI/CD pipelines, improve cloud governance/security, and collaborate with trading, development, and operations teams to maintain reliable production systems.

Participants build Python market-making bots to trade on a simulated exchange (5-8 hour challenge) competing for prizes and expedited interview access to Akuna's Quant internship and full-time roles.

Join Akuna's Risk team to develop and implement risk measures, automated reporting, and protections for options market-making. Collaborate with developers, analyze market and historical data, quantify risk and performance metrics, and assist in setting, testing, and monitoring trading and positional limits.