Jobs at Optiver

Develop and optimize ultra-low-latency software for automated high-frequency trading systems. Responsibilities include building data ingestion, research, simulation, backtesting, and production execution infrastructure; collaborating with traders, researchers, and hardware engineers; optimizing C++ and FPGA-based systems; and contributing to trading strategies and technical direction.

Build and optimize Optiver’s Research Platform, including service orchestration, job scheduling, cluster management, distributed systems, and big-data processing. Develop scalable compute and data platform capabilities in Python and Rust, integrate emerging technologies such as GPU and CUDA tooling, and collaborate with traders, researchers, and engineers to improve large-scale simulations and model training.

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.

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.

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.

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.