Jobs at Optiver

Join a trading firm's engineering team to build low-latency, production-grade systems. Learn trading fundamentals, collaborate with traders and engineers, develop well-architected code, and apply AI tools to solve real-world market problems while accelerating technical growth.

Design, analyze, prototype, test, and deploy mechanical systems for high-performance computing and custom trading hardware. Create CAD models, production drawings, fixtures, tooling, and technical documentation. Support thermal and structural analysis, fabrication, manufacturing, troubleshooting, and hardware integration while collaborating with electrical, firmware, infrastructure, manufacturing, and vendor teams.

Designs, tests, debugs, brings up, and manufactures custom high-speed, high-density hardware, primarily PCBs. Responsibilities include schematic capture, PCB layout, signal and power integrity simulation, initial hardware bring-up code, interface validation, test planning, requirements development, performance research, vendor management, and ownership from concept through production. Collaborates with trading, research, software, mechanical, and infrastructure engineering teams.

Provides proactive, high-touch support to three senior global leaders through complex calendar management, communications, meeting coordination, travel logistics, and confidential information handling. The role requires anticipating executive needs, resolving conflicts, triaging requests, translating decisions into action, and supporting leadership forums and international travel. It also serves as a visible culture carrier for the Austin office by strengthening relationships, community, and the employee experience.

Join Optiver as a Graduate Quantitative Researcher to analyze large-scale market and order-flow data, develop predictive and stochastic models, apply machine learning and deep learning techniques, and translate research into live trading solutions.

Work with researchers, engineers, and traders to analyze large market datasets, develop predictive and stochastic models, apply machine learning and deep learning techniques, and build AI-enabled research workflows to identify trading opportunities and improve pricing, forecasting, and risk management.

Design, implement, test, and verify FPGA/ASIC-based low-latency hardware for trading systems. Research low-latency techniques, integrate FPGAs with server hardware, collaborate with traders and software teams, and manage vendor relationships.

Work with a mentor and team to design, implement, test, and ship production trading applications. Focus on performance, reliability, and scalability while learning trading fundamentals and AI-enabled tools. Collaborate with engineers, traders, and business teams on real-world projects.

Mentored FPGA engineering internship building high-speed hardware for low-latency trading systems. Work includes FPGA/ASIC digital design, accelerating network and trading components, researching low-latency techniques, and collaborating with traders, software developers, and infrastructure engineers to integrate FPGA solutions with server hardware.

Design, test, and validate custom RF hardware and subsystems. Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure successful deployment of RF systems.

Summer internship working with traders, researchers, and engineers to analyze market data, develop quantitative strategies, apply programming and AI tools, run market simulations, and deliver research-backed trading insights.

Design, develop, and maintain trading systems and infrastructure, collaborating with traders and analysts to solve financial market problems.

As a Senior Software Engineer in the HFT team, you will lead technical projects, develop automated trading strategies, maintain trading infrastructure, and collaborate with researchers.

Lead end-to-end recruitment for experienced technical roles: partner with engineering leaders to design hiring strategies and interviews, source passive talent, manage pipeline health with data-driven insights, handle complex offer negotiations, and deliver a high-quality candidate experience.