Akuna Capital

Quantitative Researcher - Prediction Markets

Chicago, IL

Sponsorship not specifiedDetected 9 days ago

PythonC++Machine LearningStatisticsResearchCollaboration

About the role

Akuna Capital is an innovative trading firm with a strong focus on collaboration, cutting-edge technology, data driven solutions, and automation.
This position offers the opportunity to make a direct impact on an exciting new desk at Akuna.

The successful candidate will play a crucial role in developing Akuna's sports pricing capabilities, working closely with development and trading teams to refine and deploy these models alongside our strategies.
Design and develop data capture pipelines to enable the pricing of a variety of sports contracts (match outcomes, player props, in-game events)
Develop and calibrate pricing models using historical data in service of in-play quoting of sports contracts.
Build and maintain internal tooling to facilitate all aspects of the research pipeline

The ideal candidate will possess strong programming and analytical skills, a creative mindset, and a passion for sports.
Bachelor's, Master's, or PhD degree in a technical field, such as Engineering, Computer Science, Mathematics, or Physics (or a related subject)
2+ years of experience in a quantitative or programming role, preferably within the trading sector.

They opened the firm's first office in 2011 in the heart of the derivatives industry and the options capital of the world - Chicago.
Today, Akuna is proud to operate from additional offices in Sydney, Shanghai, London, and Singapore.

In accordance with Illinois Equal Pay Act, the minimum base salary starts at $145,000.

Deep understanding of fields such as Linear Algebra, Numerical Methods, Statistics, Optimization, and Machine Learning

This listing is sourced directly from Akuna Capital's careers page and normalized into a canonical job model.