Quantitative Researcher

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Sydney, New South Wales
Hybrid
Mid level
Fintech • Software
IMC is a proprietary trading firm powered by research and technology.
The Role
As a Quantitative Researcher, you will develop trading strategies, conduct data analyses, improve predictive models, and collaborate with teams to enhance trading performance.
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Opportunities available in Chicago, New York, Amsterdam, London, Hong Kong, and Sydney
IMC is looking for Quantitative Researchers to drive the development of trading strategies and predictive models across global financial markets. If you're passionate about advancing the boundaries of machine learning in trading, unlocking our significant execution edge, and collaborating to solidify IMC as the best trading firm in the world, this role could be your next challenge.
As a Quantitative Researcher, you will conduct large-scale data analyses to derive statistically sound predictions of market behavior. These insights directly inform our trading decisions, with your contributions delivering tangible and highly visible impact across the organization. Beyond refining trading models, you'll play a key role in shaping IMC's research initiatives and tooling direction, ensuring we remain at the forefront of innovation.
You'll join a dynamic and growing research team, working closely with traders, software engineers, and hardware developers to translate improvements into real-world trading performance. At IMC, we thrive as a team, embracing open idea-sharing and cross-disciplinary collaboration across desks, departments, and global offices.
Your Core Responsibilities:
  • Leverage deep learning techniques to improve prediction quality in a trading context
  • Collaborate with feature engineers and traders, to help ensure the feature set is crafted and used to maximum effect
  • Develop and improve sampling, weighting, cost, target, hyperparameters and network architecture to suit a range of problems and data presentations
  • Push the team forward, by keeping abreast of the latest developments in industry and academia
  • Mentor and grow the skills of junior colleagues by clearly and simply explaining complex concepts
  • Apply understanding of distributed computing, and how to align training hardware and approach to rapidly achieve results

Your Skills and Experience:
  • Master's degree or PhD in machine learning, statistics, or related STEM field
  • 3+ years of experience in quantitative modeling or similar
  • A proven track record of developing and improving deep learning models that outperform in production is highly preferred
  • Strong programming skills and experience with deep learning frameworks (TensorFlow, PyTorch, etc.)
  • Deep understanding of the strengths & weaknesses of CNN, RNN, LSTM, and transformers

About Us
IMC is a global trading firm powered by a cutting-edge research environment and a world-class technology backbone. Since 1989, we've been a stabilizing force in financial markets, providing essential liquidity upon which market participants depend. Across our offices in the US, Europe, Asia Pacific, and India, our talented quant researchers, engineers, traders, and business operations professionals are united by our uniquely collaborative, high-performance culture, and our commitment to giving back. From entering dynamic new markets to embracing disruptive technologies, and from developing an innovative research environment to diversifying our trading strategies, we dare to continuously innovate and collaborate to succeed.

Top Skills

Deep Learning Frameworks
Distributed Computing
PyTorch
TensorFlow

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The Company
HQ: Chicago, IL
1,622 Employees
Year Founded: 1989

What We Do

IMC is a global trading firm powered by a cutting-edge research environment and a world-class technology backbone. Since 1989, we’ve been a stabilizing force in financial markets, providing essential liquidity upon which market participants depend. Across our offices in the US, Europe, and Asia Pacific, our talented quant researchers, engineers, traders, and business operations professionals are united by our uniquely collaborative, high-performance culture, and our commitment to giving back. From entering dynamic new markets to embracing disruptive technologies, and from developing an innovative research environment to diversifying our trading strategies, we dare to continuously innovate and collaborate to succeed.

Why Work With Us

At IMC, the best ideas win, regardless of hierarchy. We’ve done away with artificial barriers and prioritize our employees. As a result, our people can explore their potential without limits, developing and implementing the systems and strategies that have made us one of the world’s leading liquidity providers.

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