Quantitative Developer Intern (Python)
Global principal trading firm; parent of Cumberland (crypto market maker).
Chicago, Illinois, USA
About DRW
DRW (drw.com) is a Chicago-based global principal trading firm across asset classes; its crypto arm is Cumberland, a leading digital-asset market maker.
Skills
Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You implement software solutions using advanced statistical methods for automated trading strategies. You design, develop, test and deploy trading software, optimize data processing and modeling, translate research strategies into production software, manage trading-system risk and execution, and work with asynchronous, multithreaded and networked systems.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s, master’s or PhD in computer science, electrical engineering, computer engineering, physics, mathematics or a related science discipline
- Expected graduation between December 2027 and June 2028
- Excellent Python software development skills
- Strong problem-solving and statistics skills
- Skills in asynchronous and multithreaded software
- Experience handling, maintaining and processing large datasets
- Network programming skills
- Understanding of object-oriented design, data structures and algorithms
Responsibilities
- Design proprietary software solutions
- Develop proprietary software solutions
- Test proprietary software solutions
- Deploy proprietary software solutions
- Optimize large-scale data processing and modeling
- Translate research-based trading strategies into production software
- Build software for trading-system risk and execution
- Automate human-decision-based trading strategies
- Implement algorithmic trades
- Manage day-to-day technology requirements
- Evaluate new technologies
Benefits
- Educational activities
- Social activities
- Team-building activities
- Mentorship