Jobs at Optiver

Serve as the primary HR leader for the Austin office (with some support for Chicago and New York), partnering with leaders on organizational design, performance management, employee relations, engagement, onboarding/offboarding, HR analytics, and global People programs. Leverage Workday and AI tools to improve HR processes, ensure compliance with local laws, and support talent development, succession planning, and continuous improvement.

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.

The Senior Software Engineer role involves expanding the Optiver Research Platform, enhancing performance, building features, and collaborating with global teams to improve market insights through high-performance computing and software development.

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.

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, 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.

Join Optiver as a graduate FPGA engineer to design high-speed hardware and low-latency network solutions for trading systems. You will develop FPGA/ASIC-based digital designs, research low-latency techniques, integrate with cutting-edge server hardware, and collaborate with traders, software developers, and infrastructure engineers. The role includes an intensive onboarding academy and mentorship.

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.

Develop and optimize trading strategies using quantitative research and machine learning techniques, collaborating with teammates to improve workflows and trading algorithms.

Develop and enhance the capabilities of the Optiver Research Platform by building features in Python and Rust, managing compute infrastructure, and collaborating with global teams to solve complex problems.

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.