Quantitative Strategist
Virtu Financial is a global financial services firm and market maker providing liquidity, execution services, analytics, and trading technology across multiple asset classes.
About Virtu Financial, Inc.
Virtu Financial, Inc. leverages market-structure expertise and technology to provide liquidity and transparent trading solutions across equities, ETFs, foreign exchange, futures, fixed income, cryptocurrency, and commodities. Its offerings include market making, execution services, liquidity sourcing, multi-asset analytics, data products, compliance tools, and broker-neutral workflow technology.
Skills
Candidate Availability
Required and preferred rules are kept separate and reflect the wording in the original posting.
About the Role
Work on interdisciplinary teams alongside traders, quants, and software engineers to develop predictive models, research and improve trading strategies, manage portfolio risks, and create automation and visualization tools.
Requirements
- PhD in Science, Math, Engineering, or another quantitative field
- Diverse and challenging coursework with strong grades
- Exceptional quantitative, mathematical, and problem-solving skills
- Strong communication and collaboration skills
- Ability to solve technical and quantitative problems under pressure
- Ability to express ideas mathematically and algorithmically
- Strong Python and/or C/C++ programming skills, with comfort in both
- Intellectual curiosity and self-motivation
- Ability to communicate technical and non-technical subjects at multiple levels
- Ability to seek guidance and learn new skills
- Mental flexibility and tolerance for ambiguity
- Strong drive for success in a collaborative team
Responsibilities
- Apply observation skills and modern statistical methods to identify and build predictive models
- Research and implement new trading strategies
- Analyze existing strategies to identify potential improvements
- Develop risk models and frameworks to manage portfolio risks
- Create tools to automate research tasks and improve visualization of complex data sets
Hiring Process
After application screening, candidates receive an online programming test by email through HackerRank as the first step.
