Fixed Income Analyst jobs in Illinois

IMC is looking for Fixed Income quantitative researchers to develop trading strategies and pricing models across the US Interest Rate Curve. Candidates will join an effort of combining IMC’s market making and execution expertise with modeling of US Government Bonds and yield curve valuation. Candidates will be responsible for developing Bond pricing and risk models that will then be integrated with our current futures, options and ETF strategies.

Once on board, candidates will join a growing team that will be essential to all aspects of IMC’s trading. They will contribute not only to modeling of pricing and risk but also work with developers in design and implementation of a robust framework that allows for new ideas to be researched, tested, and put into production in a timely manner.

Your Core Responsibilities:

• Understand the current suite of models and algorithms with the aim to integrate new Fixed Income specific functionality and risk types.
• Combine knowledge of systems, mathematical techniques and trading to identify the best places to improve our trading system
• Rapidly research, test, and prototype new algorithmic ideas, preferably with Python.
• See through the high quality implementation of ideas to full-scale production trading.

Your Skills and Experience:

• 2 years experience as a quantitative researcher with specific experience in pricing of US Government Bonds or Treasury Bond basis.
• Familiarity with STIR products and Corporate Fixed Income products.
• Relevant tertiary qualifications (graduate or post graduate), with strong academic results, preference in mathematics, science, financial engineering or computer science.
• Strong programming skills, Python, Java or C preferred
• Proven success in quantitative modelling and algorithm development