Sr. Quantitative Strategist

Virtu is a leading financial firm that leverages cutting edge technology to deliver liquidity to the global markets and innovative, transparent trading solutions to our clients. As a market maker, Virtu provides deep liquidity that helps to create more efficient markets around the world. Our market structure expertise, broad diversification, and execution technology enables us to provide competitive bids and offers in over 19,000 securities, at over 235 venues, in 36 countries worldwide 

The firm’s complementary core offerings—market making, client execution services, and trading venues—give Virtu a competitive advantage in developing and applying innovative tools that deliver efficiencies and performance across the organization. 

THE ROLE

Virtu's Research team is looking for a Senior Quantitative Strategist to join the ranks. In this role, you will be helping to lead our competitive retail market making efforts, working alongside traders, quants and seasoned software engineers.  The environment is collegiate and collaborative, encouraging exposure to many teams across the globe. 

• Apply your observation skills and modern statistical methods to identify and build predictive models
• Research and implement new trading strategies
• Analyze existing strategies to identify potential improvements
• Develop risk models and frameworks to manage portfolio risks
• Create tools to automate research tasks and improve visualization of complex data sets

THE CANDIDATE

• Minimum 7 year’s experience in an equities-focused research role within a trading environment
• Strong experience in signal-driven market making trading strategies 
• Advanced degree (preferably PhD) in Science, Math, Engineering or other quantitative field
• Strong programming skills (especially C/C++ and Python)
• Great communication skills and the ability to collaborate with peers
• Ability to solve technical and or quantitative problems under pressure
• Extraordinary mental flexibility and a high tolerance for ambiguity
• Strong drive for success within a collaborative team