Quantitative Systematic Trader - Graduate: 2025

Overview
Our Quantitative Systematic Traders connect ideas between trading, quantitative research, and technology to improve how trading decisions are made. As a true hybrid of our core disciplines, you will investigate ideas by immersing yourself in market data, leveraging mathematics, statistics, and programming. Through your research, you will discover new patterns that transform into trading signals, back test your results and carefully analyze its performance. As your trading strategy evolves, you will discuss with other quant researchers, strategists, and traders to collect feedback and brainstorm new ideas.

We have a comprehensive orientation programme designed to bridge the gap between academia and industry. Education topics include an introduction to options pricing, exposure to our proprietary data sets, and opportunities to practice data analysis techniques. You will have the opportunity to practice making trading decisions in a simulated trading environment. This education will aim to complement your skill set and help you add value to interesting quantitative projects. Beyond orientation, our trading floor serves as an unlimited source of discussion for learning and development.

What we're looking for

Research Minded - You enjoy diving deep into a question and are interested in exploring the subtleties of the dynamic market conditions. You like building mathematical models to reveal patterns in the vast amount of data and love it when you discover a solution to a difficult problem.

Technically Proficient – You have experience writing code to process and analyse large sets of data. You’re an analytical problem solver and use logical reasoning to justify your decisions.

A communicator - You enjoy building relationships with those you work closely with. You enjoy sharing ideas, expressing your thoughts, and listening to the views of others. You’re not afraid to discuss ideas and work with others to find the optimal solution.

Ambitious. You’re someone that enjoys setting personal goals and giving your all to achieve them. Be it in Academics, Sports, the Arts, or another passion you have, you’re not afraid to put in the effort to reach your full potential.

Soon-to-be Masters/PhD Grad or Post-doc: You study in the areas of mathematics, physics, engineering, computer science, or econometrics, and available to join the QST Programme in June 2025.

What’s in it for you:

Education: Throughout the programme you’ll have classes covering a vast range of topics (game theory, finance, python, data analysis) from some of the most experienced employees at Susquehanna.

Collaboration: You will get to work with a wide range of people across trading, quant research and technology. People who share a passion for mathematics, problem-solving, game theory and technology with you.

Development: Through your project work you will develop your analytical skills and get to share your thoughts and ideas. Your research may lead to discovering a new pattern that can be transformed into a trading signal. You will work with technologists, traders and researchers to put your idea into production and monitor it’s real time performance.

Culture: Our culture allows employees of every level to thrive. We buck the trend in the financial world – the environment is casual, collaborative and we focus on continuous development, no matter how long you’ve been at Susquehanna.

Perks: Based in Ireland’s Financial Services Centre, in the heart of Dublin’s city centre, our employees avail of free onsite catering, a games room, and a large in house gym, to name but a few of our favourite perks.

By applying to this role, you will be automatically considered for the Quantitative Researcher and Quant Trader positions. There is no need to apply to separately in order to be considered for those roles also.

Susquehanna is an equal opportunity employer, and we are committed to diversity and inclusion throughout our recruitment process. If you need assistance and/or a reasonable accommodation due to a disability during the application or recruitment process, please contact us.

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