NLGraduate Quantitative Researcher (2027 Start)
OptiverAmsterdam
Why this is on the board
The work itself, trading on financial markets, does not solve any of the world's problems. The leverage lies entirely in what you do with the salary. If you give a large share of a starting salary at a trading firm like Optiver to well-evidenced charities year after year, you can fund work that would otherwise not get done. That route is called earning to give, and it only works if you actually keep up the giving.
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About the role
If you enjoy using mathematics and code to investigate difficult questions, you could make a direct contribution to Optiver’s success in global markets. As a Graduate Quantitative Researcher, you’ll work across the full research process, from framing the question and choosing the data to building, testing and deploying models. Machine Learning is central to the work, whether you’re extracting signals, forecasting prices or modelling relationships. Our data, compute and production infrastructu…
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