Jobs in Chicago

Thurn PartnersChicagoon-site

Build and maintain high-performance options pricing, risk, research, simulation, and backtesting systems in C++ and Python, translating quantitative models into reliable production code. Collaborate with quantitative re…

Paragon Alpha - Hedge Fund Talent BusinessChicagoon-site$500,000–$1,000,000 / year

Build and optimize high-performance, low-latency C++ systems, addressing challenges in concurrency, multithreading, memory management, and hardware-level efficiency. Design robust, scalable systems where speed and relia…

FionicsChicagoremote$150,000–$800,000 / year

Build trading systems and market data infrastructure, along with platforms and tools for quantitative research. Optimize performance-critical financial applications. Requires at least 2 years of software engineering exp…

Chicago Trading CompanyChicagohybrid$175,000–$225,000 / year

Partner with quantitative researchers and traders to build and operate research data, tooling, compute, pipelines, and backtesting frameworks. Productionize research prototypes, maintain shared datasets, optimize numeri…

MA CAPITAL U.S. LLCChicagoon-site

Build and support research tools and pipelines for data sampling, quantitative analysis, simulation, backtesting, and post-trade analysis. Integrate systematic strategies into production and develop and maintain low-lat…

MA CapitalChicagoon-site

Develop and maintain low-latency trading execution systems and integrate quantitative systematic strategies into the production platform. Build and support research infrastructure, including tools for data sampling, sim…

Branch TechChicagoon-site

Develop, implement, and optimize production-quality FPGA systems for market-data processing, packet decoding, order execution, and trading infrastructure. Verify and debug hardware, perform synthesis and timing closure,…

BlackRockChicagohybrid$160,000–$210,000 / year

Design, develop, and maintain Python-based services and analytics tools to support option overlay strategies. Collaborate with portfolio management, research, and trading teams to transform quantitative ideas into produ…

Gelber Group LLCChicagoremote$100,000–$150,000 / year

Collaborate with engineers, traders, and quants to design, develop, deploy, and support proprietary trading applications and tools, including enhancements to C# infrastructure. Learn and support the full trading technol…

Gelber GroupChicagoremote$100,000–$150,000 / year

You will design, develop, and support proprietary trading applications and tools while collaborating with traders and quants. The role involves maintaining existing infrastructure in C# and providing real-time support f…

U.S. BankChicagohybrid$98,175–$115,500 / year

Develop and implement expected-loss forecasting and credit risk models for Commercial Real Estate and Small Business portfolios in compliance with CECL, CCAR, and other regulatory requirements. Monitor model performance…

Bank of AmericaChicagohybrid$140,000–$215,500 / year

Design and oversee scalable software components and big data pipelines to support Global Risk Management's analytical capabilities. Partner with senior stakeholders across the bank to implement models, tests, and proces…

OptiverChicagoon-site$200,000–$200,000 / year

Engineers will build and maintain end-to-end trading systems, including real-time execution infrastructure, simulation platforms, and data-driven strategy tools. You will collaborate directly with traders and researcher…

OP RecruitingChicagohybrid

Design and optimize ultra-low-latency, fault-tolerant distributed services and data pipelines that process live market updates, positions, and portfolio risk at very high throughput. Collaborate with quantitative resear…

DriveWealthChicagohybrid$220,000–$240,000 / year

Design and implement pricing and order-handling logic within a low-latency, deterministic trading engine. Partner with quant researchers and trading desks to translate trading strategies into production-grade, testable…

Principal Financial GroupChicagohybridUSD

The Quantitative Developer will scale machine learning and AI solutions to support investment decisions, risk management, and portfolio performance. They will build cloud-native ML workflows and integrate generative AI…

Group One TradingChicagoon-site$200,000–$275,000 / year

Build, improve, and own pricing, strategy, risk, and execution systems for an options market-making business, working closely with traders and quantitative researchers. Lead technical projects from design through deploy…

Charles SchwabChicagoon-site$175,000–$230,000 / year

Build scalable data, analytics, and platform capabilities that accelerate quantitative research and investment product innovation. Partner with researchers, engineers, product owners, and business stakeholders to solve…

CTC Lateral - Website & LinkedInChicagohybrid$175,000–$225,000 / year

You will partner with quantitative researchers and traders to design and build the data, tooling, and compute infrastructure required for research. Additionally, you will manage production pipelines, optimize performanc…

Wolverine TradingChicagoon-site$100,000–$140,000 / year

Build and optimize low-latency C++ components for market data processing, exchange connectivity, and order execution. Collaborate with traders and hardware specialists to analyze system performance and maintain producti…