2027 Shanghai Performance Researcher Summer Internship

As our Performance Researcher Intern, you’ll spend your summer delving into complex, data-driven problems at one of the world’s leading tech-driven trading firms. Under the guidance and mentorship of industry experts, you’ll apply your critical mindset and strong technical skills to drive measurable improvements to trading execution.

Through a mix of trading lectures, coursework and hands-on project experience, you’ll have deepened your understanding of the quantitative trading industry and mastered the practical skills needed to drive our trading success by the end of the 8-week internship. Plus, if you’ve excelled over the summer, you’ll receive an offer to return as a Graduate Performance Researcher.

• You will investigate real execution-performance problems across market data, our low-latency trading systems, networks, broker infrastructure, and exchanges. You will use data, experiments, and systems thinking to explain observed behavior and identify opportunities to improve trading execution.

• Analyze market, order, system, and network data to reconstruct event flows and uncover performance patterns.

• Develop hypotheses and run statistical experiments or black-box analysis to understand complex system behavior.

• Build analyses, prototypes, metrics, and visualizations to test ideas and quantify results.

• Work with traders, researchers, and engineers to evaluate and implement improvements.

You’ll join a culture of collaboration and excellence, where you’ll be surrounded by curious thinkers and creative problem solvers. Driven by a passion for continuous improvement, you’ll thrive in a supportive, high-performing environment alongside talented colleagues, working collectively to tackle the most complex problems in the financial markets.

• A highly competitive remuneration package.

• Optiver-covered flights and accommodation for the duration of the internship.

• The opportunity to work alongside diverse and intelligent peers in a rewarding environment.

• Training, mentorship and personal development opportunities.

• Gym membership, plus weekly in-house chair massages.

• Daily breakfast, lunch and in-house barista.

• Regular social events.

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