Valkyrietrading

Valkyrietrading

Quantitative Researcher (Experienced)

Chicago, IL · Senior

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 1318 days ago
AlgorithmsFinancial Modeling

About the role

  • In this role, you will have an opportunity to work with traders and software developers in a highly collaborative environment to improve Valkyrie's complex, ever-evolving algorithmic infrastructure.
  • Quantitative Researchers here focus on one of two areas: modeling or execution.
  • This role is for experienced applicants.

Responsibilities

  • Specific responsibilities can range from building tools for traders to exploring new trading ideas, to writing algorithms from scratch, to automating and refining existing strategies, to analyzing and optimizing system performance.
  • You will also inform traders about the market developments, tools, and models that drive Valkyrie's trading activities.
  • Modeling Quantitative Researchers are expected to design automated market-making and risk management algorithms, and to build statistically driven position taking strategies.
  • Execution Quantitative Researchers are expected to perform post-trade analysis, system behavior investigations, algo parameter optimizations, market microstructure studies, and other execution system optimizations.
  • We recognize that there are extraordinary opportunities to be had every day, and by exploring, collaborating, and building, we can accomplish remarkable results together.

Compensation

  • Daily competition in the financial markets provides the ideal arena to push ourselves further as we are ever striving to grow, improve, and win.
  • We recognize that there are extraordinary opportunities to be had every day, and by exploring, collaborating, and building, we can accomplish remarkable results together.

Benefits

  • Valkyrie's vision is to be an organization where curious, driven, and innovative people are able to compete and win in the world's most competitive landscape - the financial markets.

Company info

  • Daily competition in the financial markets provides the ideal arena to push ourselves further as we are ever striving to grow, improve, and win.

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