Graduate Quant Researcher - Digital Assets

About the role

As a Graduate Quantitative Researcher, you will work with experienced researchers and developers in a fast-paced, data-driven environment. You will learn how trading ideas are researched, tested, and deployed, while contributing to live strategy development from early in your career.

Responsibilities

• Research and test data-driven trading ideas
• Analyse large and complex datasets from cryptocurrency exchanges, DeFi protocols, and financial markets
• Build, test, and improve models, signals, and algorithms that support trading strategies
• Work with IMC’s cutting-edge data, software, and high-performance computing infrastructure
• Collaborate closely with researchers, developers, and engineers to turn research into production-ready strategies
• Learn how to evaluate trading opportunities with a focus on performance, scalability, robustness, and risk

Required skills

• Quantitative Research
• Mathematics
• Statistics
• Physics
• Computer Science
• Engineering
• Python
• Data analysis

Nice to have

• C++
• Financial markets
• Trading
• Crypto
• DeFi

Qualifications

• Final-year student or recent graduate in Mathematics, Statistics, Physics, Computer Science, Engineering or a related quantitative field

About the Company

IMC is a research-driven trading firm where quantitative modeling, machine learning, and engineering shape how modern markets are traded. A stabilizing force in markets since 1989, we provide liquidity across trading venues, delivering the best outcome in value and risk management to investors.