Quantitative Development & Strategy Intern
Akuna Capital is a proprietary trading firm specializing in options market making. It provides liquidity across global financial markets using advanced technology, quantitative research, trading strategies, and automation.
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 design and develop production code for trading strategies, analyze market signals, advance the existing codebase, and propose improvements while working with researchers, traders, and system engineers.
Requirements
- Pursuing a bachelor’s, master’s, or PhD in Engineering, Computer Science, Math, Physics, or a related technical field
- Strong Python programming background
- Experience with object-oriented programming
- Exposure to linear algebra and introductory statistics
- Desire and ability to learn financial markets
- Must graduate by August 2028
- GPA of 3.5 or above
- Legal authorization to work in the U.S. on the first day of employment
Responsibilities
- Design and develop production code for pricing models, execution logic, and performance optimization
- Analyze and incorporate market signals into trading systems
- Advance the existing codebase
- Propose new solutions and improvements