Quantitative Researcher
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.
Skills
Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
You develop trading strategies and predictive models using statistical and machine learning algorithms, improve signals and features, design scalable research workflows, and contribute strong quantitative research and communication skills.
Requirements
- 3+ years of professional work experience in statistics, machine learning, or a related area
- BS, MS, or PhD in Engineering, Computer Science, Math, Physics, or a similar technical field
- Proven academic or professional research background
- Programming experience in Python or C++
- Expertise in statistics and machine learning
- Ability to react quickly and accurately to changing market conditions and solve math and coding problems
Responsibilities
- Develop trading strategies using statistical and machine learning algorithms
- Improve predictive models through signal and feature research
- Design and optimize machine learning workflows
- Support scalable, efficient, and reproducible research
- Collaborate and communicate effectively
Benefits
- Employer-paid medical insurance
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- Retirement contributions
- Paid time off
- Discretionary performance bonus