WHAT YOU’LL DO:
As a data scientist in our options market making team, you will play a key role in improving our trading strategies through rigorous data-driven analysis. You’ll take a scientific approach to understanding how our systems perform in live markets—developing hypotheses, building experiments, and using advanced analytics to uncover opportunities for improvement.
You’ll work with large-scale production trading data to identify patterns, test ideas, and evaluate strategic changes. This may include leveraging statistical modeling, machine learning techniques, and other quantitative methods to better understand market dynamics and strategy behavior.
You’ll collaborate closely with traders and engineers, but your work will be rooted in independent thinking, analytical rigor, and a strong focus on real-world impact.
- Students who are graduating in 2025 or 2026
- Studying a Computer Science, Mathematics, Engineering or similarly technical degree
- Strong research skills with a scientific mindset and a passion for solving real-world problems with data.
- Proficient in Python for data analysis and prototyping; familiarity with C++ is a plus.
- Experience applying machine learning or statistical modeling techniques to complex systems or noisy data.
- Excellent critical thinking and attention to detail.
- Effective communicator who can challenge ideas constructively, explain reasoning clearly, and collaborate across teams.
Diversity Statement
Optiver is committed to diversity and inclusion. We encourage applications from candidates of all backgrounds, and welcome requests for reasonable adjustments during the process.
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What We Do
Optiver’s story began over 30 years ago, when we started business as a single trader on the floor of Amsterdam’s options exchange. Today, we are at the forefront of trading and technology as a leading global electronic market maker, focused on pricing, execution and risk management.
Why Work With Us
People at Optiver love challenges, welcome collaboration, and strive to be better tomorrow than they are today. Improving the market is an extraordinary challenge that requires a carefully crafted approach. Optiver provides a collaborative working environment to tackle these challenges. In fact, it is this way of working that sets us apart.
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