Quantitative Researcher - Data Curation

IMC Trading

Chicago, United States
Base: $200,000—$275,000 usd; bonus/equity: discret...
On-site
Curating trading-related data
Us equity and equity options
Python
The role will contribute to the development of innovative trading strategies, support data-driven decision-making, and collaborate closely with trading, technology, and data acquisition teams

Job Summary

  • The role will contribute to the development of innovative trading strategies, support data-driven decision-making, and collaborate closely with trading, technology, and data acquisition teams.
  • Key responsibilities include curating, cleansing, and validating large volumes of market data, focusing on US equity and equity options, and integrating, preprocessing, and evaluating fundamental & alternative data sources.
  • IMC is a global trading firm powered by a cutting-edge research environment and a world-class technology backbone, committed to giving back and daring to continuously innovate and collaborate to succeed.

Matching Summary

The role will contribute to the development of innovative trading strategies, support data-driven decision-making, and collaborate closely with trading, technology, and data acquisition teams.

Salary

Base: $200,000—$275,000 USD; Bonus/Equity: discretionary bonus; Benefits: paid leave and insurance

Skills & Requirements

Must-have

  • curating trading-related data
  • US equity and equity options
  • Python
  • SQL
  • statistical and machine learning techniques
  • tick-level data processing

Nice-to-have

  • integrating alternative data
  • data vendor landscape
  • collaborative high-performance culture

Key Requirements

  • 3+ years quantitative research/data role
  • experience with options markets and data
  • experience with diverse financial data
  • experience with real-time data systems

Work Rights

Not specified

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