D1 Quantitative Researcher
Akuna Capital is a proprietary trading firm specializing in options market making.
About Akuna Capital
Akuna Capital is a global proprietary trading firm headquartered in Chicago, with offices in London, Sydney, Shanghai, and Singapore. The firm provides liquidity as an options market maker across global financial markets, covering products including commodities, indexes, and cryptocurrencies. Akuna designs and develops its own low-latency trading systems, mathematical models, strategies, and infrastructure through its Technology, Trading, Quant, and Operations departments. It also offers an Options 101 course introducing industry fundamentals and options trading concepts.
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About the Role
You will develop alphas, signals and strategies to capture opportunities in Delta One markets. You will use fundamentals, statistical methods and machine learning to find new tradable signals, then design, backtest and optimize strategies using extensive market data and backtesting infrastructure. You will deploy, validate and monitor trading on in-house infrastructure, identify risk factors and optimize portfolio construction.
Requirements
- 3+ years of professional experience researching or trading Delta One strategies with short to medium-term horizons
- Track record of identifying opportunities, creating signals, building and deploying strategies, and executing trades
- Degree (BS, MS or PhD) in a technical field such as Engineering, Maths, Physics or Computer Science
- Strong Python coding skills
Responsibilities
- Develop alphas, signals and strategies to take advantage of opportunities in Delta One
- Use fundamentals, statistical methods and machine learning to identify new tradable signals
- Design, backtest and optimize strategies using market data and backtesting infrastructure
- Deploy, validate and monitor trading using in-house infrastructure
- Identify risk factors and optimize portfolio construction