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Develop automation tools, data pipelines, and workflows to enhance systematic trading strategies and reduce operational friction. Collaborate with traders and engineers to solve real production issues and optimize market-making systems.
Candidates must be pursuing a STEM degree (Bachelor's, Master's, or PhD) with a graduation date between Winter 2027 and Spring 2028. Proficiency in a programming language, preferably Python, and legal authorization to work in the U.S. are required.
As a Trading Automation and Operations Intern, you'll work on our trading floor enhancing fully systematic trading strategies and solving operational challenges that directly support our core market-making business. Over ten weeks, you'll build automation, investigate real production issues, and improve our trading strategies, systems, and workflows. You'll take ownership of real business problems with the support of experienced teammates and mentors, while deepening your understanding of financial markets and market making. Like teams across Optiver, you’ll use AI to accelerate how you investigate problems, build solutions, and learn, while applying your own judgment to decide what works.
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Who you are:
Optiver is a leading technology- and research-driven trading firm. Our teams of scientists, engineers, mathematicians, and traders work side by side to develop, test, and scale ideas that shape how we understand and trade global markets. Powered by a global platform built for rapid experimentation and iteration, we combine the scientific rigor of a research institution with the pace of a technology company.
Our differences are our edge. Optiver does not discriminate on the basis of race, religion, color, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, age, physical or mental disability, or other legally protected characteristics.
We accept one application per role per year. If you have previously applied to this position during this season and have been unsuccessful, you can reapply once the next recruitment season begins in 2027.
Below is the expected compensation for this position. This is a good-faith estimate of the base pay scale and sign-on bonus for this position and offers will ultimately be determined based on experience, education, skill set, and performance in the interview process. This position will also be eligible for the benefits listed above.
A global technology- and research-driven trading firm where ideas become breakthroughs in global markets.
At Optiver, we continuously quote buy and sell prices across financial markets, using our own capital and advanced technology to provide liquidity at scale across products, venues and market conditions. We are a global company with offices in Amsterdam, Sydney, Chicago, Austin, Taipei, Hong Kong, Shanghai, London, New York, and Singapore.
Offices: Strawinskylaan 3095, Amsterdam, 1077ZX, NL · 275 Kent Street, Level 32, Sydney, New South Wales 2000, AU · 130 East Randolph Street, Suite 800, Chicago, Illinois 60601, US · 1568 Century Avenue, 35F, China Fortune Tower, Shanghai , 200122, CN · 1 Connaught Rd Central, Suites 3206-09, 32F, Hong Kong, HK
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