About this role
Job title: Quantitative Market Maker
About the Role
Join Old Mission as part of a team focused on providing liquidity across exchange-listed asset classes. This role centers on building and operating a quantitative market maker, collaborating with researchers, engineers, traders, and operations to design models, deploy systems, and improve market quality in global markets.
What You'll Do
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Collaborate with quantitative researchers to develop pricing models and trading strategies using statistical techniques and machine learning on historical market data.
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Design, implement, and optimize high-performance distributed systems and algorithms to execute in global markets.
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Build and maintain proprietary pricing libraries and execution tools used by traders to manage execution and portfolio risk.
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Partner with operations and sales to support clients and contribute to improvements in market quality and risk transfer.
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Work in a cross-functional environment where collaboration is essential to delivering liquidity with minimal market impact across equities, bonds, currencies, and derivatives.
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What We're Looking For
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Interest in quantitative finance and market making with the ability to translate market data into actionable models.
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Strong analytical skills with experience in statistics and machine learning; ability to apply methods to historical market data.
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Comfort working with engineers, researchers, traders, and operations in a fast-paced, collaborative setting.
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Familiarity with or openness to trading across asset classes such as equities, bonds, currencies, and derivatives.
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Strong communication and teamwork skills; self-motivated and results-oriented.