Senior Quantitative Researcher

Flower Infrastructure Technologies AB

⚡️ What We Do Flower is Flexible Power. We are a next-gen energy company leveraging AI and machine learning to make renewable energy stable and always available – even when the sun isn’t shining and the wind isn’t blowing. Through smart optimization and trading of energy assets like wind and solar farms, battery systems, and EV chargers, we make renewable energy reliable and predictable, leading the charge towards the energy system of tomorrow. 🌟Who We Are Tech company at heart – purpose in our DNA. Flower consists of a diverse group of innovative individuals with a strong desire to improve the state of the world. At Flower, we believe trust, collaboration and diversity are essential to not only create an inclusive work environment, but also drive career growth. By embracing varying perspectives, we allow creativity and progress to flourish. To accelerate towards our goal of becoming the pioneering force powering the energy system of tomorrow, we are now looking for a passionate and skilled Senior Quantitative Researcher. 👩‍💻 About The Role: As a Senior Quantitative Researcher, you will play a defining role in shaping the future of the Wholesale team within the Asset Optimization domain. You will be part of a small, dynamic group mastering short-term energy markets such as Intraday Continuous and Day-Ahead. You will be at the heart of a fast-evolving trading environment, where data, algorithms, and market dynamics intersect. Your mission: transform ideas into scalable trading strategies, guide the exploration of data and signals, and ensure that our research translates into profitable, risk-aware execution. This is a hands-on, creative, and technical role. You will lead and collaborate with exceptional colleagues to discover new signals, design trading hypotheses, and turn them into executable models all while setting the direction of our research and backtesting platform. What You’ll Do: Design the next generation of trading strategies: Develop and refine algorithmic trading approaches across wholesale energy markets, balancing profitability with robustness and compliance. Develop LOB-aware strategies: Design and refine trading strategies suited for continuous double auction (limit order book) markets such as Intraday Continuous, optimizing order placement, execution, and liquidity interaction. Lead research and model development: Identify opportunities through data exploration, design models needed to execute trading strategies, and contribute to a culture of rigorous validation and risk evaluation. Engineer research excellence: collaborate with developers to evolve our research platform and backtesting infrastructure, ensuring reproducibility, scalability, and fast iteration from prototype to production. Integrate risk and performance analyses: Embed risk management principles into every stage of model design and evaluation, ensuring our strategies align with our risk and regulatory mandates. Explore and expand data horizons: Investigate new data sources, signals, and market features that can unlock trading opportunities or enhance decision-making. Mentor and elevate the team: Share your expertise with other researchers and developers, and help cultivate a culture of intellectual curiosity, rigor, and collaboration. Work across the stack: Contribute to research, data pipelines, backtesting processes, and model deployment workflows, ensuring your work integrates smoothly into production systems. Who You Are:  8+ years of experience designing, implementing, and validating algorithmic trading models, with proven hands-on experience in the energy sector. Deep understanding of market microstructure, price formation, and execution dynamics, with an ability to translate theory into profitable, risk-conscious strategies. Strong programming skills (Python preferred) and comfortable working across the full research stack, from data engineering to backtesting and model deployment.  You enjoy digging into messy datasets, asking the right questions, and validating your assumptions with evidence.  Skilled at guiding less experienced colleagues, fostering technical and analytical growth within the team. You value feedback, and take ownership from inception to production. You thrive in an environment that moves fast and evolves constantly, always exploring new data sources, statistical methods, and machine learning techniques to improve performance and adapt to evolving markets. You combine analytical rigor with a proactive, impact-driven mindset, always looking for ways to make your work count.  Direct experience in energy trading, especially algorithmic execution in intraday continuous markets, or in developing strategies tailored to the dynamics of energy systems.  📍 Location Our beautiful office is located in the heart of Södermalm just a short walk from Slussen subway station. We encourage in-office collaboration but support a hybrid work model. ✉️ Apply Our corporate language is English, as we have over 30 nationalities in the office. We therefore appreciate it if you could submit your CV in English. Throughout the recruitment process you will meet with the People & Talent Partner, Head of Wholesale & Strategic Analytics, Product Owner and VP of Engineering. We look forward to hearing from you! --- We kindly but firmly decline any engagement in recruitment assistance for our hiring processes. 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Maven Securities

Senior Quantitative Researcher - Options Market Making  Maven is a market-leading proprietary trading firm deploying its own capital across discretionary, systematic, and market-making strategies. Backed by deep expertise in trading, technology, and research, we are relentlessly focused on improving liquidity across global listed derivatives. Through advanced execution and pricing technologies, we improve how financial markets operate. The role:  As a Senior Quantitative Researcher, you will lead projects that have a direct impact on our trading performance. You will work collaboratively with other researchers and traders from various scientific fields and prestigious academic institutions, to develop innovative real-time trading models and solutions for low latency trading systems for exchange-traded options. You will share your knowledge and expertise with other researchers to tackle various challenging projects including but not limited to option pricing and volatility models, algorithm design and alpha research. What we’re looking for:  * Academic degree in applied mathematics, computer science, statistics engineering or physics. PhD or any other track record in conducting independent research.  * Minimum 3+ years of experience in the financial industry, particularly electronic options trading.  * Ability to research advanced algorithms, develop predictive models and verify complex hypotheses using large datasets. * Proactive interest in improving existing trading strategies and identifying new opportunities.  * A collaborative bridge between developers, and traders who aligns technical work with commercial impact and the broader strategic vision, and a real team player with other quants in the team. Why you should apply:  * Rare opportunity to take a high level of responsibility at a fast-growing global trading firm  * Opportunity to be highly involved in the decisions that shape our trading * Flexible research environment to iterate on your ideas quickly and see the impact of your work in production * Leadership opportunities as the team grow * Great engineering environment where technology, creativity and innovation is key to our success * An environment where you’re empowered and supported to achieve your ambitions * Friendly, informal and highly rewarding culture * The upside of a start-up without the associated risks WHAT WE CAN OFFER YOU * Competitive compensation  * Annual discretionary bonus  * Fully catered breakfast and lunch * 25 days’ annual leave * Informal dress code  * Private healthcare and life assurance * Group Pension plan  The Options Market Making team at Maven Securities operates under a strict direct sourcing model. We are committed to managing all recruitment activities internally to ensure a consistent and transparent candidate experience. As such, we do not accept unsolicited CVs or introductions from recruitment agencies. If you're interested in this opportunity, please apply directly.

Man Group

About Man Group Man Group is a global alternative investment management firm focused on pursuing outperformance for sophisticated clients via our Systematic, Discretionary and Solutions offerings. Powered by talent and advanced technology, our single and multi-manager investment strategies are underpinned by deep research and span public and private markets, across all major asset classes, with a significant focus on alternatives. Man Group takes a partnership approach to working with clients, establishing deep connections and creating tailored solutions to meet their investment goals and those of the millions of retirees and savers they represent. Headquartered in London, we manage $228.7 billion* and operate across multiple offices globally. Man Group plc is listed on the London Stock Exchange under the ticker EMG.LN and is a constituent of the FTSE 250 Index. Further information can be found at www.man.com At Man Group, we respect your privacy and we are committed to protecting and safeguarding your Personal Data. We have developed policies and processes which are designed to provide for the security and integrity of your Personal Data. We are committed to Processing your Personal Data fairly and lawfully, and being open and transparent about such Processing. For further information on how we process your data, please see the privacy notice for applicants here * As at 31 March 2026   About Man AHL: Man AHL employs diversified quantitative techniques to offer a range of strategies which encompass traditional momentum, non-traditional momentum, multi-strategy and sector-based approaches. Man AHL’s strategies are primarily alternative and seek to gain potential predictive, alpha-generating insights through rigorous analysis of large data sets. Man AHL is a specialised engine, applying scientific rigour and advanced technology and execution to a diverse range of data to build systematic investment strategies, trading continuously over hundreds of global markets. The team of 150 investment professionals, including 110 researchers, is comprised of scientists, technologists and finance practitioners, driven by curiosity and intellectual honesty, and a passion for solving the complex problems presented by financial markets. The engine leverages Man Group’s unique collaboration with the University of Oxford, the Oxford-Man Institute of Quantitative Finance (OMI). The OMI conducts field-leading academic research into machine learning and data analytics, which can be applied to quantitative investing. Founded in 1987, Man AHL’s funds under management were $63.8 billion at 31 March 2024. Further information can be found at www.man.com/ahl. The Team: AHL Macro is the team responsible for Macro strategies. The team systematically trades liquid futures and FX at different frequencies, with holding periods ranging from intraday to monthly. Technology and Business Skills: * 3+ years of experience researching and live trading alpha signals for futures and FX (essential) * Experience with intraday > monthly predictor design and analysis * Experience with portfolio construction, risk analysis * Strong understanding of transaction costs, and mitigation strategies * Strong coding skills and experience of handling large data sets. We use Python and its scientific stack for both research and live trading   Personal Attributes: * Strong academic record and a degree with high mathematical, statistical, and computing content e.g., Mathematics, Computer Science, Engineering, Economics or Physics from a leading university * Hands-on attitude; willing to get involved with technology and projects across the firm * Intellectually robust with a keenly analytic approach to problem solving * Self-organised with the ability to effectively manage time across multiple projects and with contending business demands and priorities * Strong interpersonal skills; able to build and maintain a close working relationship with quantitative researchers, technologist, traders and senior business stakeholders alike. Ability to mentor junior researchers * Confident communicator: able to argue a point concisely and deal positively with conflicting views Working Here: AHL fosters a performance driven, meritocratic culture with a small company, no-attitude feel. It is flat structured, open, transparent, and collaborative, offering ample opportunity to grow and have enormous impact on what we do.  We are actively engaged with the broader research and academic community, as well as renowned industry contributors. Inclusion, Work-Life Balance and Benefits at Man Group You'll thrive in our working environment that champions equality of opportunity. Your unique perspective will contribute to our success, joining a workplace where inclusion is fundamental and deeply embedded in our culture and values. Through our external and internal initiatives, partnerships and programmes, you'll find opportunities to grow, develop your talents, and help foster an inclusive environment for all across our firm and industry. Learn more at www.man.com/diversity. You'll have opportunities to make a difference through our charitable and global initiatives, while advancing your career through professional development, and with flexible working arrangements available too. Like all our people, you'll receive two annual 'Mankind' days of paid leave for community volunteering. Our comprehensive benefits package includes competitive holiday entitlements, pension/401k, life and long-term disability coverage, group sick pay, enhanced parental leave and long-service leave. Depending on your location, you may also enjoy additional benefits such as private medical coverage, discounted gym membership options and pet insurance. Equal Employment Opportunity Policy Man Group provides equal employment opportunities to all applicants and all employees without regard to race, color, creed, national origin, ancestry, religion, disability, sex, gender identity and expression, marital status, sexual orientation, military or veteran status, age or any other legally protected category or status in accordance with applicable federal, state and local laws. Man Group is a Disability Confident Committed employer; if you require help or information on reasonable adjustments as you apply for roles with us, please contact TalentAcquisition@man.com.