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We're building out a trading initiative in London, with a growing focus on listed commodities options. This expansion is supported by a mix of internal talent and experienced external hires. With a collaborative and entrepreneurial culture, the team offers a unique opportunity to help shape and scale a new desk from an early stage.

The group combines deep expertise with broad trading experience and values innovation, ownership, and cross-functional collaboration. As the desk continues to grow, there will be increasing opportunities to take on broader responsibilities and contribute meaningfully to its success.

 Your Core Responsibilities

• Maximize revenue by identifying and monetizing short- and long-term mispricing’s, as well as managing the resulting positions.
• Be able to take lots of responsibility and ownership early in your time here to drive the strategy forward.
• Managing risk and developing market making strategies
• You will have lots of responsibility and ownership early on to drive strategies forward and be successful
• IMC is highly collaborative between traders, quants, and developers so the scope of responsibility is fairly fluid involving a mixture of data-driven analysis, quantitative modelling and algorithm development

Your skills and experience:

• 3+ years’ experience in Commodities markets
• BS, MS, or PhD, preferably in STEM
• You have a quantitative and strategic mindset and a healthy appetite for risk
• Strong technical skills in Statistics and Python
• You have a proven ability to act and make decisions in a fast-paced and competitive environment
• You are analytical, passionate about reflecting on past trades, and always seeking to do better
• Experience with managing risk and developing market making strategies
• Product experience is preferred
• Strong communication and teamwork abilities

We're building out a trading initiative in London, with a growing focus on listed commodities options. This expansion is supported by a mix of internal talent and experienced external hires. With a collaborative and entrepreneurial culture, the team offers a unique opportunity to help shape and scale a new desk from an early stage.

The group combines deep expertise with broad trading experience and values innovation, ownership, and cross-functional collaboration. As the desk continues to grow, there will be increasing opportunities to take on broader responsibilities and contribute meaningfully to its success.

 Your Core Responsibilities

• Manage broker relationships in the Commodities team
  Be able to take lots of responsibility and ownership early in your time here to drive the strategy forward.
• Closely collaborating and effectively communicate with Vol and Screen traders to manage risk portfolios
• Leverage an entrepreneurial mindset to identify and research new trading opportunities
• Perform trades analysis to improve trading

Your skills and experience:

• 2+ years of experience as an Execution/Broker Trader
• BS, MS preferably in business, economics or STEM
• You have a quantitative and strategic mindset and a healthy appetite for risk
• Strong technical skills in Statistics and Python
• You have a proven ability to act and make decisions in a fast-paced and competitive environment
• You are analytical, passionate about reflecting on past trades, and always seeking to do better
• Strong communication and teamwork abilities

Our US Equity Options business has become one of the leading liquidity-providers in the marketplace. We’ve already created partnerships and business models to facilitate our expansion and we continue to improve our options pricing, particularly in the volatility space. IMC is highly collaborative between traders, quants, and developers so the scope of responsibility involves working with others to identify and describe mispricings, interact with the market, and push forward visibility improvements

Your Core Responsibilities: 

• Maximize revenue by both finding, and then capitalizing on short term mispricing, as well as managing larger positions
• Work closely with our best-in-class research and quant teams to analyze your results and improve your approach
• Take lots of responsibility and ownership early to drive strategies forward and be successful

Your Skills and Experience: 

• Experienced equity options trader with at least 2 years’ experience
• Entrepreneurial mindset with a healthy risk appetite, are competitive by nature, and are a fast decision maker
• Ability to identify patterns and describe them analytically. Preference for relevant tertiary qualifications (graduate or post graduate), with strong academic results
• Passionate about understanding volatility dynamics and willing to immediately act on your opinions to capture market opportunities.
• In tune with the fundamental drivers of stocks we trade and can work effectively with a research analyst team to make decisions

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IMC is seeking experienced quantitative professionals to join our US Equity Options market-making business. We are a leading scaled liquidity provider in US equity options, operating a large-scale systematic trading platform spanning thousands of underlyings. Our platform integrates quantitative research, trading strategy development, and production engineering within a collaborative, non-siloed environment across trading, research, and development teams.

This role focuses on improving how automated trading decisions are designed, evaluated, and deployed in live markets. You will work at the intersection of quantitative research, execution, and risk management to enhance pricing quality, execution performance, and overall system robustness. Improvements influence the broader platform rather than a single seat, providing meaningful ownership and impact from day one. Compensation is competitive and aligned with individual contribution.

Your Core Responsibilities: 

• Develop and refine quantitative models that improve pricing, execution, and risk management.
• Analyze large-scale market and trading datasets to identify structural improvements.
• Design, test, and deploy strategy enhancements into production systems.
• Collaborate closely with traders, researchers, and engineers to iterate on live trading logic.
• Contribute to scalable solutions that impact a broad universe of equity options products.
• Drive research from idea generation through backtesting, implementation, and real-time monitoring.

Your Skills and Experience: 

• 3+ years of experience in quantitative research, systematic trading, or market microstructure-focused roles.
• Experience working with exchange-traded products, ideally equity options.
• Strong understanding of market structure and trading system behavior.
• Demonstrated ability to conduct rigorous analysis on large, real-world datasets.
• Strong programming skills (Python required; C++ or similar preferred).
• Experience integrating research into production trading systems.
• Background in statistics, probability, time series analysis, or optimization is strongly preferred.

Salary

$250,000

IMC is going through an exciting period of expansion across the Asia-Pacific region — and we’re looking for experienced ETF Traders who will accelerate our growth into new markets. The right candidate will bring a significant track record of trading ETFs on at least one major APAC market including China. This is a unique opportunity to play a pivotal role in driving IMC’s ETF business forward. You’ll have the autonomy to make decisions that matter, the support of world-class technology, and the chance to see your ideas translate into measurable results in real markets.

At IMC, you’ll join a dynamic and collaborative trading team that thrives on innovation, analytical excellence, and teamwork. We compete and win as a team, with open idea sharing across disciplines, desks, and offices. Working side by side with quant researchers, software engineers, and hardware engineers, you’ll help uncover opportunities, optimize performance, and broaden our product coverage in APAC ETF markets.

Your Core Responsibilities:

• Develop, maintain, and enhance ETF trading models, algorithms, and systems.
• Price and trade ETFs across APAC markets
• Manage and optimize risk exposures in line with IMC’s risk tolerance and trading objectives.
• Research, build out, and trade new market opportunities to expand our regional footprint.
• Collaborate cross-functionally with engineers and researchers to understand and improve technical infrastructure and trading efficiency.

Your Skills and Experience:

• Degree in a quantitative field such as Mathematics, Physics, Computer Science, Engineering, or Economics.
• 3+ years’ experience in quantitative trading with specific experience in ETFs within APAC markets (China highly regarded).
• Strong understanding of ETF pricing.
• Strong programming skills in at least one language (python strongly preferred).
• Strong understanding of financial markets, market microstructure, and trading systems.
• Strong data analysis skills, including working with large-scale financial datasets and tick-level data.
• Excellent problem-solving skills, with the ability to thrive under pressure and adapt to changing market conditions.

Your IMC journey as a Graduate Trader begins with a six-week Global Trainee Programme led by our seasoned engineers and traders alongside graduates from all three IMC regions: Europe, the United States, and Asia-Pacific. During this traineeship, you will deepen your knowledge about trading and financial markets, IMC’s trading strategies, and our proprietary trading systems. Your training will continue back at your local office, where you’ll receive support from your dedicated mentor, an experienced trader at IMC. Our trading teams span across discretionary, systematic, and execution-focused roles, giving you the chance to apply your skills in strategy, quantitative modelling, or market execution. Following the programme, you will be placed on a desk that best matches your strengths and interests, so you can hit the ground running. You’ll receive recognition for your ideas and successes every step of the way.

YOUR CORE RESPONSIBILITIES

• Trade a wide range of financial instruments
• Develop, maintain, and improve trading strategies and algorithms
• Manage the execution and risk of complex trading portfolios
• Collaborate closely with IMC’s technology developers and engineers

YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCES

• In your ultimate year of study in mathematics, physics, econometrics, or a related quantitative field, and are seeking to join IMC full-time in February or August 2026
• Experience in a programming language is a plus (e.g. Python, Matlab or R)
• First-class analytical skills
• A genuine interest in financial markets (no prior knowledge or experience is required)

Please note: This position can be based in either our Amsterdam or London office. If you have a preference on location, we encourage you to let us know, however, it cannot be guaranteed.

If you have already applied for this position during the current recruitment season and were not selected, you may reapply when the next recruitment season begins in September 2026. We encourage you to focus on enhancing your skillset before reapplying.

Due to U.S. consulate restrictions, candidates from certain nations (including Russia, Belarus, and Iran) are required to apply for their visa in a designated third country or to prove strong ties with a country of residency. Since the global traineeship begins shortly after employment starts, there is not enough time to establish the ties with the Netherlands which is needed for approval. As a result, we are unable to proceed with your candidacy for the graduate traineeship programme at this time. We greatly appreciate your understanding and hope to consider you for future opportunities.

If you are a dual passport holder of another nationality or a European citizen who wants to relocate back to Europe, you remain welcome to apply and should inform our campus recruitment team of your situation: CampusEU@imc.com.

For more information on our trading interview process, please review our preparation guide here. 

IMC is a global market maker, using advanced technology and sophisticated strategies to trade across major financial markets. With offices in Amsterdam, Chicago, and Sydney, we combine deep market expertise with cutting-edge systems to provide liquidity around the clock.

Our Equity Options desk is a fast-growing part of the business, trading a wide range of single stocks across the APAC region. We combine best-in-class execution, proprietary models, and high-quality market data to capture opportunities in both high-frequency and directional trading strategies. As we continue to expand this area, we’re looking for an experienced Equity Options Trader to help drive performance and innovation.

Your Core Responsibilities: 

• Run and develop equity options trading strategies across key APAC single stocks, using both your own insights and the broader team's research and tools.
• Collaborate closely with quant researchers, software engineers, and execution specialists to optimize pricing, hedging, and risk management.
• Make real-time trading decisions based on market dynamics, volatility, and flow.
• Contribute to the evolution of our equity options trading desk, from strategy refinement to new market expansion.
• Mentor junior traders and share your expertise to strengthen the team as a whole.

Your Skills and Experience: 

• 5+ years of experience managing an equity options book focused on the Hong Kong market at a trading firm, bank, or market maker
• Strong track record of profitability in directional or volatility-based strategies.
• Deep understanding of options Greeks, volatility surfaces, and market microstructure.
• Confident, fast decision-maker with a solid risk framework and entrepreneurial mindset.

IMC is looking for experienced quantitative researchers to develop systematic futures trading strategies. Candidates will join a well-resourced effort combining IMC’s extensive options trading expertise with systematic strategies in the underlying futures market. Candidates will be responsible for performing large scale data analysis, utilizing modern machine learning techniques to derive forecasts that will be combined with IMC’s best-in-class technology platform for execution in futures markets.

Once on board, candidates will join a growing team that will be essential to all aspects of IMC’s trading.  They will contribute not only to signal generation but also work w/ developers in design and implementation of a robust research framework that allows for new ideas to be researched, tested, and put into production in a timely manner. 

Your Core Responsibilities:

• Conduct alpha / signal / feature research targeted at intraday futures trading strategies — from hypothesis generation through rigorous data analysis.
• Quickly prototype, backtest, and evaluate new trading ideas, using large-scale and high-frequency market data.
• Collaborate with developers, traders, and fellow researchers to design and implement a robust research-to-production pipeline. Once validated, see ideas through to full-scale deployment.
• Monitor and refine existing strategies, continuously evaluating performance, risk, and edge decay — and iterating to maintain or improve profitability.
• Explore and integrate new data sources, alternative data sets, and market microstructure signals to expand the research toolbox.
• Contribute to defining the strategic direction of research initiatives, including tooling, data infrastructure, and methodology improvements.

Your Skills & Experience

• Advanced degree (MSc, PhD, or equivalent) in a quantitative or technical discipline (Mathematics, Statistics, Physics, Computer Science, Financial Engineering, or similar).
• Several years (5+ Years) of quantitative research experience, preferably in systematic trading, futures, HFT, or related high-frequency / high-throughput environments.
• Demonstrable track record of generating predictive signals in futures / derivatives / systematic trading.
• Excellent programming skills (e.g., Python, C++, or other relevant languages), and comfort working with large datasets and real-time data feeds.
• Strong statistical background, with experience in statistical modeling, time-series analysis, machine learning / ML-based approaches, and understanding of overfitting risk.
• Deep interest in market dynamics, high-frequency trading, and understanding of microstructure, order flow, and volatility — with an ability to translate that into actionable research.
• Strong analytical thinking, problem-solving skills, and a practical “business orientation”: able to assess strategy viability, robustness, and real-world performance.
• Excellent communication and collaboration skills — able to work effectively across teams (developers, traders, researchers).

IMC Trading is seeking a Senior Quantitative Researcher to join the options quant team. You will join the team as a senior member with the expectation of leading projects and mentoring juniors. Skills and responsibilities listed below.

Your Core Responsibilities:

• Collaborate with the trading and quantitative research team to evaluate existing algorithms
• Combine knowledge of systems, mathematical techniques and trading to identify the best places to improve our trading system
• Rapidly research, test, and prototype new algorithmic ideas, preferably with Python.
• See through the high-quality implementation of ideas to full-scale production trading.
• Mentor graduate quantitative researchers

Your Skills and Experience:

• Ms or PhD in a highly quantitative field
• At least 5 years in financial services or a quantitative environment
• Experience in project or people management
• Strong programming skills, Python, Java or C++ preferred
• Proven success in quantitative modelling and algorithm development
• You have experience with options pricing

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Our Index Options team chases edge in volatility valuation, detailed execution, and fast technology. We are making a big push in our ability to price vol and take risk, with the goal of growing into a leading volatility desk in the marketplace. We are a highly collaborative group of generalists and specialists. Together we strive to have deep expertise, ownership, and innovation in the topic areas that are important to winning in the Index Options space.

 Your Core Responsibilities

• Maximize revenue by identifying and monetizing short- and long-term mispricing, as well as managing the resulting positions
• Monitor and react to volatility shifts, liquidity changes, and macro events.
• Take ownership of index options trading books across EU and/or US markets with a focus on opportunistic, high-risk/high-reward strategies
• Deploy directional and volatility-based trades with strong conviction, backed by market intuition, quantitative signals and rigorous scenario analysis
• Collaborate with quants and engineers to refine pricing models and volatility surfaces and to improve execution tools, automation and latency
• Back test signals and validate new trading ideas.
• Provide feedback to enhance risk systems, scenario tools, and vol surfaces.
• Perform post-trade reviews to continuously improve execution and hedging.
• Be able to take lots of responsibility and ownership early in your time here to drive the strategy forward.

Your skills and experience:

• 2+ years of Index Options Volatility trading experience
• BS, MS, or PhD, preferably in business, economics, or STEM
• You have an entrepreneurial mindset and a healthy appetite for risk
• You have a proven ability to act and make decisions in a fast-paced and competitive environment
• You are analytical, passionate about reflecting on past trades, and always seeking to do better
• You have a deep understanding of fundamental drivers of volatility dynamics
• Strong proficiency in Python