IMC
Quantitative Researcher - Data Curation
$250K–$300K
Chicago, United States · Full-time · Posted Aug 22, 2025
- Experience
- 3+ years in a quantitative research or data-focused role in financial markets; ideally in a systematic trading environment.
About the job
Curates and analyzes trading and financial data, conducts quantitative research, and supports the development and production deployment of trading strategies.
What you'll do
- Cleanse, validate, integrate, and evaluate market, fundamental, and alternative data, especially US equity and equity options data.
- Build and maintain data pipelines for research and live trading; assess data quality with data teams.
- Analyze data and develop statistical models to identify market patterns and support trading strategies and production tools.
What they ask for
- Previous knowledge of options markets and experience working with options data.
- Advanced proficiency in Python.
- Experience with databases (SQL) and handling large datasets efficiently.
- Strong understanding of the data vendor landscape.
Nice to have
- Hands-on experience integrating and analyzing non-market data sources.
- Familiarity with real-time data systems, tick-level data processing, and statistical and machine learning techniques.
Pay
$250,000 — $300,000 USD base salary
Tools
Python, SQL
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