Quantitative Researcher - Equities

Your Core Responsibilities

• Conduct large-scale data analysis to generate statistically robust predictions of market behavior, which guide all trading decisions and drive high-impact improvements across global offices.
• Work as part of an established and expanding research team, collaborating closely with traders, software and hardware developers globally to enhance our models and drive measurable improvements in production performance.
• Contribute to defining the strategic direction of research and tooling initiatives.
• Leverage creativity and expertise to quickly produce high-quality, testable ideas.
• Apply a disciplined and systematic approach to ensure results are robust and thoroughly validated.
• Build a deep understanding of market dynamics and potential optimization areas, working closely with operational traders to implement improvements.

Your Skills and Experience

• Graduate & Postgraduate studies from a leading University; majoring in Machine Learning, Statistics, or STEM related subjects.
• 3+ years’ experience as a Quantitative Researcher, with specific experience in the high to mid-frequency delta one space, ideally within Equities markets.
• A proven track record of developing value-adding and orthogonal features across multiple families.
• Practical experience extracting value from a range of sources (both public feed and alternative data).
• Strong programming skills in at least one language (python preferred).
• Solid understanding of statistics.
• Significant practical experience with at least one mainstream ML approach is required, whilst familiarity with a variety of machine learning approaches and the risks of overfitting is preferred.
• Exceptional interpersonal and communication skills, combined with a proven capacity to collaborate across disciplines and work autonomously to achieve goals.

About Us

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. Using our own technology and capital, we build proprietary systems and algorithms that operate across global markets. Our researchers, traders, and engineers work as a collective, combining rapid experimentation, advanced infrastructure, and real-time feedback to turn insight into execution and execution into advantage.