Quantitative Researcher Altas Technologies at IMC
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Job Location:
Amsterdam - Netherlands
Monthly Salary:
Not Disclosed
Posted on:
23-08-2025
Vacancies:
1 Vacancy
Job Summary
In 2023 IMC acquired Altas Technologies a rapidly growing algorithmic trading firm with the ambition of creating tomorrows most technically advanced trading stack. By combining Altas highly advanced trading strategies with IMCs execution and scaling capabilities this move strengthens IMCs position in the market and is an important step towards ensuring stability and long-term growth for the firm.
The Altas team builds robust fully automated systems to predict and trade cryptocurrency a technology-oriented and scientifically-minded group we design and build our own cutting-edge systems from high-performance trading platforms to distributed ML- and research infrastructure. Youll join at a very exciting time in the growth of the team and will be able to contribute to our success in scaling our crypto this role youll work together with an ambitious team of researchers and quant developers to design and implement HFT monetization frameworks end-to-end and from the ground up.
Your Core Responsibilities
As a Quantitative Researcher you will be operating as a senior and core member of our high-performance dedicated multi-disciplinary team with a background in Mathematics Physics Computer Science Robotics Data Science Engineering Statistics. The one thing we all have in common regardless of our individual backgrounds is a creative and scientific mindset.
You will not get a lot of top-down instruction telling you exactly what to do and when to do it. Youll get directional advice useful frameworks access to interesting challenges and plenty of freedom to execute as you see fit. We are meritocratic by nature and believe that empowering talent in our organization is the only way to achieve our highly ambitious goals.
We are looking for a creative scientifically minded individual who can lead the growth of the firms trading research to improve execution quality in delta 1 mid-frequency (intraday) trading context. As a Quantitative Researcher you will work together with the engineering team to implement and test execution improvements and the research team to improve the strategies capacity and profitability from the perspective of trading costs.
- You will have full ownership of the design and development of models and algorithms responsible for trading and optimal execution of billions in monthly volume
- You will work together with peer researchers and quant developers to design and improve HFT monetization frameworks end-to-end and from the ground up. This includes HFT alpha research market impact modeling ML modeling execution benchmarking and performance profiling
- Analyze large orders- and trades datasets for post-trade analytics and improve monitoring capabilities to ensure we are always on top of the market decomposing PnL and identifying blind spots / opportunities in the algorithms.
Your Skills and Experience
- An advanced degree with excellent grades in Mathematics Physics Computer Science Data Science Engineering Statistics or any other highly quantitative field
- Experience as a Researcher in (high to mid-frequency) D1 execution research ideating trades- and book features that are predictive of execution costs and short-term price movements.
- Demonstrable experience and interest in crypto markets is highly preferred.
- Significant practical experience with large messy datasets.
- Understanding of position management market risk and the optimal execution side of quant strategies (implementation shortfall trade cost modelling).
- Scientific mindset with experience in data analysis with Python & any SQL dialect. Strong eye for detail and highly structured using a rigorous process to ensure results are reliable and well tested
- Serious about clean code simple but well-architected systems and continuous improvement
- Sense of ownership taking full responsibility and accountability for your contributions
- Technical accomplishments are considered a plus: Kaggle Hackathons Olympiads publications
About Us
IMC is a global trading firm powered by a cutting-edge research environment and a world-class technology backbone. Since 1989 weve been a stabilizing force in financial markets providing essential liquidity upon which market participants depend. Across our offices in the US Europe Asia Pacific and India 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.
Key Skills
- Intelligence Community Experience
- Python
- Spss
- Microsoft Word
- R
- Regression Analysis
- Windows
- Stata
- Microsoft Powerpoint
- Research Experience
- Data Modeling
- Writing Skills
About Company
0-50 employees
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