Senior Quant Researcher - Equity Options
A top global market maker is expanding its equity options research team in NYC. This is an opportunity to work directly alongside traders and engineers to develop alpha, improve volatility models, and build systematic trading strategies that drive PnL. You'll have ownership from day one, access to world class technology, and the ability to see research move quickly into production.
What you will do:
- Develop predictive signals, pricing models, and systematic strategies across equity and index options
- Conduct large scale research on volatility, market microstructure, and alpha generation
- Partner closely with traders to improve execution, hedging, risk management, and quoting performance
- Work with engineers to enhance research tools, data pipelines, and infrastructure
What They're Looking For:
- 3-5 years of experience working on strategy research in the options space
- Strong understanding of options pricing, volatility surfaces, Greeks, and market microstructure
- Demonstrated success developing predictive models or signals with measurable trading impact
- Advanced programming skills in Python and experience working with large datasets (machine learning experience is a plus)
- Advanced degree in math, stats, physics, computer science or a related quantitative field
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