Quantitative Hardware Researcher

Join Optiver’s main research facility in Austin, Texas, as a Quantitative Hardware Researcher and help improve trading system hardware designs, systems, and strategies using your quantitative skills and hardware understanding.

Requirements

• Strong quantitative background
• Understanding of hardware and ability to combine skills to drive analysis
• Ability to present findings to others
• Comfortable working with Python and Jupyter notebooks
• Ability to work in a datacenter lab environment
• Programming experience in low-level languages such as C/C++ or VHDL
• Experience with low-latency networks and related hardware

Benefits

• Highly competitive compensation package
• Global profit-sharing pool and performance-based bonus structure
• 401(k) match up to 50%
• Comprehensive health, mental, dental, vision, disability, and life coverage
• 25 paid vacation days alongside market holidays
• Extensive office perks