Quantitative Hardware Researcher

Austin is home to Optiver’s main research, design and manufacturing facility for our custom trading system hardware. Fully understanding the components we use and the (exchange) environments in which our systems operate is critical to our success. We’re looking to expand the team with a quantitative researcher to help in hardware R&D. With your quantitative skills and affinity for hardware, you’ll work with the engineers in the lab devising experiments, gathering data, running analysis and ultimately building an understanding of how things actually work. Using this knowledge to help to improve our designs, systems and the strategies that run upon them. What you’ll do You’ll be involved in a wide variety of tasks which focus around your quantitative skills and understanding of hardware. This is just a few of the things you’ll do: • Design, build and run exp