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The live hiring book across quant firms

1,457 open vacancies across 21 active employers. Coverage includes technology, data, infrastructure, risk and business teams as well as 395 core quant research and trading roles.

Updated today25 cities with roles open248 state pay in the advert
Where the roles are

All open roles at tracked quant firms, counted live from each employer board. Select a city to filter the list.

What jobs do quant firms hire for?

Quant trading firms and hedge funds hire researchers and traders, but most open roles are in software engineering, data, infrastructure, hardware and operations. Every advert here comes from a covered quant firm's own careers feed, is checked for open status, and links to modelled pay for the role and city.

40 matching vacancies

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Ordered by seniority, pay and discipline, so the roles worth moving for sit at the top. Graduate and internship programmes rank last unless you filter for them.

  • Senior Software Engineer (Options)

    Chicago, United StatesAn established proprietary trading firmRef KQ-BADCBE

    Software engineeringSeniorOptions and volatilityBachelors

    $175k – $250k

    Advertised base

    Employer-stated salary

    First seen 1 month ago

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  • Senior Software Engineer, Trading Platform, C++

    Chicago, United StatesAn established proprietary trading firmRef KQ-4F5521

    Software engineeringSeniorHigh-frequency trading

    $175k – $240k

    Advertised base

    Employer-stated salary

    First seen 2 months ago

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  • Senior Software Engineer, Unified Platform - Trade Management, Trade and Order Processing, Platform Services

    Chicago, United StatesAn established proprietary trading firmRef KQ-93635F

    Software engineeringSenior

    $175k – $275k

    Advertised base

    Employer-stated salary

    First seen 2 months ago

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  • Senior Software Engineer, C++ (Algo)

    Chicago, United StatesAn established proprietary trading firmRef KQ-E224C0

    Software engineeringSeniorBachelors

    $150k – $250k

    Advertised base

    Employer-stated salary

    First seen 2 months ago

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  • Senior Software Engineer, Treasury and Reference Data (Java/Ruby/Python)

    Chicago, United StatesAn established proprietary trading firmRef KQ-FD07C1

    Software engineeringSenior

    $200k – $275k

    Advertised base

    Employer-stated salary

    First seen 2 months ago

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  • Senior Software Engineer - DeFi

    Chicago, United StatesAn established proprietary trading firmRef KQ-3BB4BC

    Software engineeringSeniorOptions and volatility

    $130k – $225k

    Advertised base

    Employer-stated salary

    First seen 2 months ago

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  • Senior Software Engineer, C++

    Chicago, United StatesA fast-growing quantitative trading firmRef KQ-93636E

    Software engineeringSeniorPhD

    $185k – $225k

    Advertised base

    Employer-stated salary

    First seen 2 months ago

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  • Senior Systems Engineer - Microsoft

    Chicago, United StatesAn established proprietary trading firmRef KQ-F0AD48

    Software engineeringSenior

    $155k – $185k

    Advertised base

    Employer-stated salary

    First seen 1 month ago

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  • Senior Software Engineer, Cumberland/Options Data

    Chicago, United StatesAn established proprietary trading firmRef KQ-76322B

    Software engineeringSeniorOptions and volatilityBachelors

    Pay not published

    No salary stated in the advert

    First seen 1 month ago

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  • Trading Systems Engineer - Global Options

    Chicago, United StatesAn established proprietary trading firmRef KQ-0EC2A8

    Software engineeringOptions and volatility

    $175k – $225k

    Advertised base

    Employer-stated salary

    First seen 4 days ago

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  • Senior Software Engineer

    Chicago, United StatesA fast-growing quantitative trading firmRef KQ-BE6811

    Software engineeringSeniorMasters

    Pay not published

    No salary stated in the advert

    First seen 2 months ago

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  • AI Inference Platform Engineer

    Chicago, United StatesAn established proprietary trading firmRef KQ-ECC2B4

    Software engineering

    $200k – $250k

    Advertised base

    Employer-stated salary

    First seen 1 month ago

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  • Software Engineer - Cumberland/Options Front Office Systems

    Chicago, United StatesAn established proprietary trading firmRef KQ-5376A9

    Software engineeringOptions and volatilityBachelors

    $175k – $225k

    Advertised base

    Employer-stated salary

    First seen 1 month ago

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  • Software Engineer - Low Touch Desk

    Chicago, United StatesA fast-growing quantitative trading firmRef KQ-495606

    Software engineeringBachelors

    $200k – $250k

    Advertised base

    Employer-stated salary

    First seen 2 months ago

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  • Software Engineer, Research – Cumberland Systematic

    Chicago, United StatesAn established proprietary trading firmRef KQ-E60008

    Software engineeringHigh-frequency trading

    $175k – $225k

    Advertised base

    Employer-stated salary

    First seen 2 months ago

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  • Site Reliability Engineer - Algorithmic Trading

    Chicago, United StatesAn established proprietary trading firmRef KQ-B5E481

    Software engineeringBachelors

    $130k – $225k

    Advertised base

    Employer-stated salary

    First seen 2 months ago

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  • Desktop Systems Engineer

    Chicago, United StatesAn established proprietary trading firmRef KQ-665BE7

    Software engineering

    $85k – $125k

    Advertised base

    Employer-stated salary

    First seen 3 days ago

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  • Systems Engineer - Microsoft

    Chicago, United StatesAn established proprietary trading firmRef KQ-2DD9E8

    Software engineering

    $120k – $160k

    Advertised base

    Employer-stated salary

    First seen 2 months ago

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  • Trade Systems Engineer

    Chicago, United StatesAn established proprietary trading firmRef KQ-2AEF7B

    Software engineeringBachelors

    $85k – $125k

    Advertised base

    Employer-stated salary

    First seen 2 months ago

    View opportunity
  • Systems Engineer - Global Development Platform

    Chicago, United StatesAn established electronic market makerRef KQ-063B12

    Software engineeringBachelors

    Pay not published

    No salary stated in the advert

    First seen 3 days ago

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  • Software Engineer, Early Career

    Chicago, United StatesAn established electronic market makerRef KQ-5C1346

    Software engineeringMasters

    Pay not published

    No salary stated in the advert

    First seen 2 months ago

    View opportunity
  • Software Engineer - Python, Business Operations

    Chicago, United StatesA fast-growing quantitative trading firmRef KQ-429C1D

    Software engineeringOptions and volatilityBachelors

    Pay not published

    No salary stated in the advert

    First seen 2 months ago

    View opportunity
  • Software Engineer - C++, Trading Strategies

    Chicago, United StatesA fast-growing electronic market makerRef KQ-CCAC36

    Software engineeringMarket makingBachelors

    Pay not published

    No salary stated in the advert

    First seen 2 months ago

    View opportunity
  • Software Engineer - C++

    Chicago, United StatesA fast-growing electronic market makerRef KQ-CE5663

    Software engineeringMarket makingBachelors

    Pay not published

    No salary stated in the advert

    First seen 2 months ago

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  • Software Engineer - Data Engineering

    Chicago, United StatesA fast-growing electronic market makerRef KQ-F6A72E

    Software engineeringMarket makingPhD

    Pay not published

    No salary stated in the advert

    First seen 2 months ago

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  • HPC Systems Engineer

    Chicago, United StatesAn established proprietary trading firmRef KQ-AF6C8F

    Software engineeringOptions and volatility

    Pay not published

    No salary stated in the advert

    First seen 2 months ago

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  • Software Engineer | GUI

    Chicago, United StatesAn established proprietary trading firmRef KQ-F5BB06

    Software engineeringOptions and volatility

    Pay not published

    No salary stated in the advert

    First seen 2 months ago

    View opportunity
  • Software Engineer | Market Data Systems

    Chicago, United StatesAn established proprietary trading firmRef KQ-F9690C

    Software engineeringOptions and volatility

    Pay not published

    No salary stated in the advert

    First seen 2 months ago

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  • Software Developer

    Chicago, United StatesAn established proprietary trading firmRef KQ-8550C8

    Software engineeringPhD

    Pay not published

    No salary stated in the advert

    First seen 2 months ago

    View opportunity
  • Software Engineer – BP&A

    Chicago, United StatesAn established electronic market makerRef KQ-CA8B78

    Software engineering

    Pay not published

    No salary stated in the advert

    First seen 2 months ago

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