Senior Quantitative Researcher

About the Company

Maven is a market-leading proprietary trading firm deploying its own capital across discretionary, systematic, and market-making strategies. Backed by deep expertise in trading, technology, and research, we are relentlessly focused on improving liquidity across global listed derivatives.

Responsibilities

• Lead projects that have a direct impact on trading performance
• Develop innovative real-time trading models and solutions for low latency trading systems for exchange-traded options
• Tackle challenging projects including option pricing, volatility models, algorithm design, and alpha research
• Collaborate with researchers and traders to align technical work with commercial impact

Requirements

• Academic degree in applied mathematics, computer science, statistics engineering, or physics
• PhD or a track record in conducting independent research
• Minimum 3+ years of experience in the financial industry, particularly electronic options trading
• Ability to research advanced algorithms and develop predictive models using large datasets
• Proactive interest in improving existing trading strategies

Benefits

• Competitive compensation and annual discretionary bonus
• Fully catered breakfast and lunch
• 25 days’ annual leave
• Private healthcare and life assurance
• Group Pension plan
• Informal dress code