Quantitative Developer Internship - Quant Trading & Research, Summer 2018
Akuna’s Quantitative Trading and Research team is looking to add Quant Development Interns to a team of mathematicians, statisticians and technologists for a 10 week internship in our Chicago office. This team creates trading strategies scientifically by combining its quantitative expertise with sophisticated understanding of derivatives and financial markets.
The successful candidate will have a strong programming background, familiarity with advanced mathematical techniques and the fluency of leveraging both skills to produce high-performance production code and trading solutions.
What you’ll do as a Junior Quantitative Developer at Akuna:
- Design and develop production code of trading strategies: pricing models, execution logic and performance optimization along with researchers and traders
- Design and develop front-end analytical and visualization tools
- Advance existing codebase and propose new solutions and improvements
Qualities that make great candidates:
- Pursuing a Bachelors, Masters, or Ph.D. in technical field – Engineering, Economics, Statistics, Mathematics, Computer Science or a related/equivalent field
- Strong Python or C++ programming background
- Experience in object-oriented, generic and multithreaded programming
- Understanding in advanced Mathematics: Analysis, Linear Algebra, Statistics and Optimization
- Disciplined and rigorous mind of development
- Graduation date of August 2020 or prior