VOLANT TRADING Quantitative Developer / Researcher Salary in the United States

Quantitative Developer / Researcher

Overview

Volant is a technology-driven trading firm specializing in systematic options, futures, and equities trading. We have offices in New York, Chicago, and Hong Kong. We pride ourselves on our entrepreneurial culture, flat hierarchy, and cross-team collaboration.

Responsibilities

As a Quantitative Developer / Researcher, you will have the opportunity to do the following:

• Build, evaluate, and improve models for option pricing, risk management, and implied volatility estimation
• Research signals and implement new systematic trading strategies
• Analyze performance of and improve existing systematic trading strategies

• Work on a wide range of products across different markets

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or higher in a quantitative field – Physics, Mathematics, Statistics, Computer Science, Engineering, or comparable
• Excellent quantitative, analytic and research skills
• Strong knowledge of options theory and options modeling experience
• Strong Python and C++ programming skills
• Ability to find pragmatic solutions to complex problems
• Ability to work collaboratively in a team environment
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Legal authorization to work in US

 Experience in these areas is not a requirement, but will be a plus:

• Linux including shell scripts
• Data Analysis with large data sets
• Machine learning