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IMC is seeking experienced Quantitative Traders to drive the monetisation of high to mid-frequency delta-one trading strategies within the APAC markets. In this role, you will harness your expertise to develop and execute profitable systematic trading strategies that deliver measurable results.
Joining our dynamic and growing research and trading team, you'll collaborate closely with quant researchers, software engineers, and hardware engineers to uncover opportunities, optimize performance, and enhance our production outcomes.
IMC competes and wins as a team, with open idea sharing and collaboration across disciplines, desks and offices.
Your Core Responsibilities:
- Develop and deploy high to mid-frequency systematic trading strategies, with a focus on APAC equities markets.
- Identify and exploit inefficiencies in financial markets, optimizing trade selection and minimizing market impact.
- Design and implement execution algorithms that account for market microstructure and dynamic liquidity conditions
- Manage and optimize risk exposures in line with the firm's risk tolerance and trading objectives.
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 the high to mid-frequency delta-one space, ideally within APAC markets.
- Strong programming skills in at least one language (python strongly preferred).
- Strong understanding of financial markets, market microstructure, and trading systems.
- Experience in modelling market impact, with a deep understanding of order book dynamics, and liquidity provision
- Experience building predictive models for order placement, timing, and sizing to reduce adverse selection and slippage.
- 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.
About Us
IMC is a leading global trading firm powered by a cutting-edge research environment and a world-class technology backbone. Since 1989, we've been a stabilizing force in financial markets, providing essential liquidity upon which market participants depend. Across our offices in the US, Europe, and Asia Pacific, our talented quant researchers, engineers, traders, and business operations professionals are united by our uniquely collaborative, high-performance culture, and our commitment to giving back. From entering dynamic new markets to embracing disruptive technologies, and from developing an innovative research environment to diversifying our trading strategies, we dare to continuously innovate and collaborate to succeed.
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What We Do
IMC is a leading trading firm, known worldwide for our advanced, low-latency technology and world-class execution capabilities. Over the past 30 years, we’ve been a stabilizing force in the financial markets – providing the essential liquidity our counterparties depend on. Across offices in the US, Europe, and Asia Pacific, our talented employees are united by our entrepreneurial spirit, exceptional culture, and commitment to giving back. It's a strong foundation that allows us to grow and add new capabilities, year after year. From entering dynamic new markets, to developing a state-of-the-art research environment and diversifying our trading strategies, we dare to imagine what could be and work together to make it happen.
Why Work With Us
At IMC, the best ideas win, regardless of hierarchy. We’ve done away with artificial barriers and prioritize our employees. As a result, our people can explore their potential without limits, developing and implementing the systems and strategies that have made us one of the world’s leading liquidity providers.
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