PhD Opportunities
PhD Opportunities
Your PhD trained you to question assumptions, design experiments and defend results. At Optiver, you’ll apply that rigour to global markets, turning advanced research into production models measured by live performance.
Scientific questions, market proof
Frame the question, build the model and deploy to production. See when performance diverges from backtest, investigate why and iterate without friction.
Testimonial
“I build machine learning models to forecast short-term prices for high-frequency trading. The entrepreneurial feel, lots of ownership and freedom to chase ideas I believe in, plus endless opportunities to do deep research in a complex, always-changing environment.”
“One of the key differentiating factors versus a lot of our main competitors is that we have a really open culture. We build on top of each other's IP. There is no internal competition among us.”
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PhD Quant Focus
Start with technical exploration. Get closer to the kinds of quantitative problems we work on and see how your research approach applies in live markets.
Internships
Work hands-on with researchers, traders and engineers on real problems. It’s a practical way to test the fit while showing how you think in an applied setting.
Full-time quant research roles
Move into a full-time research role where strong academic foundations translate into measurable trading outcomes. Where there is clear mutual fit, progression can move quickly.
