Wolverine Trading
Quantitative Trader - High Frequency Futures
$150K–$200K
Chicago, Illinois · On-site · Full-time · Posted Oct 29, 2026
- Experience
- At least 2+ years generating or implementing short-term trading alphas in production trading strategies.
- Education
- Degree in a quantitative discipline such as Statistics, Computer Science, Mathematics, Engineering, etc.
About the job
Research and implement high-frequency futures trading alphas, from data analysis and validation through back-testing and production monitoring.
What you'll do
- Analyze large financial datasets to generate trading alphas; define model validation metrics and monitor back-testing and production performance.
- Develop in-house data analysis packages and research frameworks, and acquire, clean, and maintain datasets.
- Contribute to the architecture of the futures trading technology stack.
What they ask for
- At least 2+ years of experience generating or implementing short-term trading alphas in production strategies.
- Knowledge of CME and related market microstructure.
- Advanced knowledge of modern statistical and machine learning techniques; proficiency in a scripting language such as Python, R, or MATLAB, plus at least one statistical package and one machine learning package in one of those languages.
- Demonstrated experience working with tick data; degree in a quantitative discipline such as Statistics, Computer Science, Mathematics, or Engineering.
Nice to have
- Experience developing software systems in an object-oriented language.
Pay
USD $150,000-$200,000 base salary
Tools
CME, Python, R, MATLAB
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