Quantitative Trading Internship

As our Quantitative Trading Intern youll spend your summer tackling complex quantitative problems at one of the worlds leading techdriven trading firms. Under the guidance and mentorship of industry experts youll apply your strong reasoning skills to design develop and enhance our innovative trading strategies fully immersing in the world of market making.

From derivative theory training to handson trading experience youll have deepened your understanding of the quantitative trading industry by the end of the 8week internship. Plus if youve excelled over the summer youll receive an offer to return as a Graduate Quantitative Trader.

What youll do

Requiring a pragmatic mindset logical problemsolving skills and mathematical precision our internship is as close as you can get to a real trading experience. Led by our dedicated inhouse education team that consists of extraders and engineers our Quantitative Trading Internship offers you the opportunity to:

• Complete our curated series of lectures and coursework on trading fundamentals covering topics such as options pricing financial markets trading strategies and cuttingedge technology.
• Apply your recently acquired knowledge in a simulated trading environment trading options using live market data for a realistic handson experience.
• Analyse real historical data to develop your own algorithmic trading strategy and backtest to see how it performed.
• Learn directly from our team of fulltime educators and current traders gaining exposure to our various trading desks and experience the financial markets firsthand.
• Push your limits and accelerate your growth in a fascinating and highperforming environment.

Find your niche in trading

During the internship you will gain exposure to the various trading desks at Optiver. Discover some of our teams below.

• Read Wills story to discover how he leverages the data available to make informed trading decisions in the Index Options team.
• Read Jasons story to discover how he uses cuttingedge statistical models and machine learning algorithms to optimise our autotraders in the Delta 1 team.
• Read Matts story to discover how he works closely with external counterparties to provide pricing liquidity and negotiate large trades in the Institutional Trading team.

What youll get

Youll join a culture of collaboration and excellence where youll be surrounded by curious thinkers and creative problem solvers. Driven by a passion for continuous improvement youll thrive in a supportive highperforming environment alongside talented colleagues working collectively to tackle the most complex problems in the financial markets.

In addition youll receive:

• A highly competitive remuneration package.
• Optivercovered flights and accommodation for the duration of the internship.
• The opportunity to work alongside bestinclass professionals.
• Training mentorship and personal development opportunities.
• Gym membership plus weekly inhouse chair massages.
• Daily breakfast lunch and inhouse barista.
• Regular social events.

Who you are

• A penultimate university student. If you are a prepenultimate university student discover our 2025 FutureFocus program and apply today.
• An Australian or New Zealand Citizen Australian Permanent Resident or able to provide evidence of full working rights.
• Lateral thinker with a passion for quantitative problems and working in collaborative dynamic environments.
• Holds superior quantitative and logical reasoning skills.
• Experienced in programming or scripting in Python a plus.

Optiver is committed to diversity and inclusion and it is hardwired through every stage of our hiring process. We encourage applications from candidates from any and all backgrounds and we welcome requests for reasonable adjustments during the process to ensure that you can best demonstrate your abilities.

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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 when the next recruitment season begins in 2026.