Graduate Quant Researcher

Your IMC journey as a Graduate Quantitative Researcher begins with a six-week Global Trainee Programme led by our seasoned engineers and traders alongside graduates from all three IMC regions: Europe, the United States, and Asia-Pacific. During this traineeship, you will deepen your knowledge about trading and financial markets, IMC’s trading strategies, and our proprietary trading systems. Your training will continue back at your local office, where you’ll receive support from your dedicated mentor, an experienced quant researcher at IMC. Following the programme, you will join a team of quantitative researchers, where you’ll play a key role in exploring and shaping strategies in global markets. You’ll receive recognition for your ideas and successes every step of the way.   YOUR CORE RESPONSIBILITIES   Collaborate with traders to evaluate existing models and suggest improvements Build customised analysis tools to explore new research ideas Apply rigorous quantitative techniques to solve complex problems Design mathematical models based on innovative trading ideas Implement these new models and put them into production YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE  In your ultimate year of a MSc or PhD in mathematics, physics, astrophysics, or a related quantitative field, and are seeking to join IMC full-time in February or August 2027 Experience in a programming language (e.g. Python, Matlab or C++) First-class quantitative and analytical skills, with excellent attention to det