Quant Trading Associate - 2027 Start

Chicago Trading Company · Campus

Pay: $200,000/yr
Where: Chicago, IL
Posted: Aug 3

The Quant Trading Associate (QTA) role is our entry-level position within our Trading and Quant organization and gives you broad exposure to the whole business as you work towards graduating from the Associate Program and assuming a role as a Quant Trader or Quant Researcher.

As a QTA, you will work in a high-impact role as a member of a trading or quantitative team. You will play a vital part in identifying trading opportunities and impacting your team through dynamic problem solving — including trade execution, strategy formulation, back-testing, data analysis, and the modeling and pricing of traded financial derivatives — while communicating with traders, risk managers, software engineers, and quants throughout the trading day.

What you'd do

An introduction to options pricing, theory, trading philosophies, and programming courses
Exposure to different product areas and responsibilities
One-on-one mentorship from senior members in the firm
Opportunities to grow quickly and start making autonomous trading decisions
Participation in data-driven research for the purpose of alpha generation
You have a competitive drive and are a highly motivated individual that only gets stronger as part of a collaborative team
An aspiration to collaborate with traders, quants, developers, and other experts to further CTC's goal of providing world class liquidity to financial markets
You love solving complex problems
You're intellectually curious and like to challenge the status quo
You can effectively communicate sophisticated ideas both written and verbally