Graduate Trader

Your IMC journey as a Graduate Quantitative Researcher begins with a six-week Global Trainee Programme led by our seasoned engineers and traders alongside graduates from all three IMC regions: Europe, the United States, and Asia-Pacific. During this traineeship, you will deepen your knowledge about trading and financial markets, IMC’s trading strategies, and our proprietary trading systems. Your training will continue back at your local office, where you’ll receive support from your dedicated mentor, an experienced quant researcher at IMC. Following the programme, you will join a team of quantitative researchers, where you’ll play a key role in exploring and shaping strategies in global markets. You’ll receive recognition for your ideas and successes every step of the way.   YOUR CORE RESPONSIBILITIES   * Collaborate with traders to evaluate existing models and suggest improvements * Build customised analysis tools to explore new research ideas * Apply rigorous quantitative techniques to solve complex problems * Design mathematical models based on innovative trading ideas * Implement these new models and put them into production YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE  * In your ultimate year of a MSc or PhD in mathematics, physics, astrophysics, or a related quantitative field, and are seeking to join IMC full-time in February or August 2027 * Experience in a programming language (e.g. Python, Matlab or C++) * First-class quantitative and analytical skills, with excellent attention to detail * A genuine interest in financial markets (no prior knowledge or experience is required) Please note: If you have already applied for this position during the current recruitment season and were not selected, you may reapply when the next recruitment season begins in Summer 2027. We encourage you to focus on enhancing your skillset before reapplying.   Due to current U.S. immigration and visa restrictions, some candidates may not be eligible to obtain the U.S. business visa required as part of our Global Traineeship Programme. As the programme includes mandatory training in the United States shortly after joining, we are unfortunately unable to proceed with applications from candidates who are unable to obtain the required visa within the programme timeline.   If you are a dual passport holder of another nationality or a European citizen who wants to relocate back to Europe, you remain welcome to apply and should inform our campus recruitment team of your situation: CampusEU@imc.com [CampusEU@imc.com]. About Us IMC is a global trading firm powered by a cutting-edge research environment and a world-class technology backbone. Since 1989, we’ve been a stabilizing force in financial markets, providing essential liquidity upon which market participants depend. Across our offices in the US, Europe, Asia Pacific, and India, our talented quant researchers, engineers, traders, and business operations professionals are united by our uniquely collaborative, high-performance culture, and our commitment to giving back. From entering dynamic new markets to embracing disruptive technologies, and from developing an innovative research environment to diversifying our trading strategies, we dare to continuously innovate and collaborate to succeed.

As a Graduate Trader at Da Vinci, you’ll work with a fun team of highly skilled researchers and engineers. Our Traders are key to developing and utilising algorithmic trading strategies that help us reach our goal of building one of the best proprietary trading firms in the world. Da Vinci offers an exciting and dynamic work environment, where employees are given the freedom to come up with great ideas and the space to push these to completion. This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to be part of a successful and fast-growing company. Responsibilities: * Generate profits through volatility trading by position-taking and market making * Risk management of your portfolio * Improve and refine our trading infrastructure and setup * Devise new trading strategies for current and prospective markets * Evaluate prospective markets for opportunities Requirements: * Technical background (Maths, Physics, Engineering, Econometrics, Quant Finance or similar quantitative studies) * Strong interest in trading (Experience in real or simulated trading is a plus) * Ability to make decisions under pressure * Understanding of risk and reward patterns * Strong affinity with numbers * Good communication skills * Attention to detail * Analytical approach to solving complex problems * Competitive but cooperative attitude * Proactive and an entrepreneurial mindset Benefits: * A comprehensive theoretical and practical training program provided by our dedicated in-house trainer * Sign-on bonus of EUR 20k, base salary of EUR 100k * Excellent variable pay and growth opportunities * Outstanding performance is also rewarded with shareholding in the company * A relocation package when moving from abroad, including a relocation budget, flight coverage, house-finding service and expat support * Meals during work hours * Social events and after-work drinks * Reimbursement of travel costs * Sponsored gym membership * In-house game room (pool table, board games and console games) Currently we are not offering opportunities to write a thesis. This may change in the future. Please visit our website periodically and follow us on social media to stay up to date.