TransMarket Group
Senior Mid-Frequency Quantitative Trader
Chicago, Illinois, United States · Senior · Full-time · Posted Jun 2, 2026
- Experience
- Relevant industry experience required; no number of years stated.
- Education
- Bachelor's, Master's, or Doctorate in a technical field.
About the job
Leads an entrepreneurial trading initiative by researching, developing, and improving automated medium-frequency futures strategies and supporting quantitative trading tools.
What you'll do
- Develop automated medium-frequency strategies across futures products, targeting holding periods of minutes to hours.
- Create and improve quantitative futures-price prediction models and the firm’s signals library.
- Collaborate to improve the backtester and other tools needed to build a sustainable trading desk.
What they ask for
- Experience successfully developing quantitative models for profitable trading.
- Strong mathematical background and numerical programming skills in Python.
- Passion for financial markets and market microstructure.
- Ability to work in a fast-paced, collaborative team environment; technical degree and relevant industry experience.
Nice to have
- Industry C++ experience.
Tools
Python, C++
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