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✅ = Company offers role and applications are open → click on the checkmark for a link to the job posting
✔️ = Company offers role, applications are not open
SWE = Software Engineering or Quantitative Development
QR = Quantitative Research
QT = Quantitative Trading
| Company | Location | SWE | QR | QT | Status | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Akuna Capital | Chicago | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ||
| Ansatz Capital | NYC | Very Small, Citadel Spinoff. | ||||
| Aquatic | Chicago | Very Small, Citadel Spinoff. Matt Godbolt (Yes, that godbolt), works here. | ||||
| AQR | Greenwich | ✔️ | ✔️ | |||
| BAM | ✔️ | ✔️ | ||||
| Arrowstreet Capital | Boston | ✔️ | ✔️ | Fully Systematic. | ||
| Belvedere Trading | Chicago | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | ||
| Blackedge Capital | Chicago | ✔️ | ✔️ | |||
| Bridgewater | Westport | ✔️ | Day Ralio's firm. Very unique culture and interviews. Very School Selective. | |||
| Campbell and Company | Baltimore, MD | This small 60 employee multi-strat quant firm has an extremely collaborative culture. | ||||
| Citadel | Chicago, NYC | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | The hedge fund side of Ken Griffin's Citadel. The quants are mostly on the Global Quantitative Strategies team (GQS). Citadel tends to be fairly school-selective. | |
| Citadel Securities | Chicago, NYC | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | The market making arm of Citadel. The general perception is that the culture tends to be better at Citadel Securities vs Citadel LLC. | |
| Chicago Trading Company | Chicago | ✔️ | ✔️ | Very trader led shop. Shares an office with Group One Trading. | ||
| Cubist | New York City | ✅ | ✔️ | The quant arm of Steve Cohen's Point72 hedge fund. Pretty small and school selective. | ||
| DE Shaw | NYC | ✅ | ✔️ | Tends to be extremely school-selective, mostly recruiting from ivy leagues and similar. Generally considered a top destination for QRs, more so than other roles. | ||
| DRW | Chicago | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | Perception is that DRWers tend to have a good WLB but teams are usually siloed. Known for their PM type culture and relatively fluid roles. | |
| Engineer's Gate | New York | |||||
| Five Rings | NYC | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | Winter also available. | Extremely school-selective - generally MIT only. |
| Flow Traders | NYC | ✔️ | Primary focus is on ETFs. Pay tends be lower than IMC and Optiver. One of the only publicly traded quant funds. | |||
| G-Research | London | Also hires people out of the US. Very focused on research with a lot of people working on cutting-edge Machine Learning. | ||||
| Geneva Trading | Chicago | ✔️ | ✔️ | |||
| GSA Capital | NYC | |||||
| HAP Capital | NYC | ✔️ | ✔️ | Another options market maker. Less known than (IMC, Optiver, ...) but well known in the OMM circle. | ||
| Headlands Tech | Chicago | Founded by ex-Citadel people. Max Dama works here. Similarly to Ansatz, Aquatic, and Radix, a small firm that is willing to pay more than most competitors. Known to have a large focus on C++, both among QRs and SWEs. | ||||
| Hudson River Trading | NYC | ✔️ | ✔️ | The Algo Dev role at HRT is essentially Quantitative Research. HRT's culture seems to be pretty similar to JS and pay is similar too. HRT has a bigger focus on ML with their dedicated HRT AI Labs. Known for recruiting UG QRs, and for very collegial culture. | ||
| IMC Trading | Chicago | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | Known for a pretty chill, tech-like culture. They're a more systematic OMM. | |
| Jane Street | NYC | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | Founded by ex-SIG people. Tends to be more school-agnostic than other firms. General perception of JS is that it has a very comfortable and nerdy culture. Specializes in ETF market making, and uses OCAML as their primary programming language. | |
| Jump Trading | Chicago | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | Fairly school-selective recruiting. Very engineering-focused with siloed teams. Known for being extremely fast at execution. | |
| Mako Trading | London | |||||
| Marshall Wace | NYC | |||||
| Maven Securities | London | Founded by ex-optiver traders. | ||||
| Millenium | NYC | ✔️ | ✔️ | |||
| Old Mission | Chicago, NYC | Takes 4 total for a winter internship. Very trader led. Many good traders come here to carve their own path. | ||||
| Optiver | Chicago, Austin | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | Tends to have the highest pay out of the three big dutch firms (IMC, Optiver, Flow Traders) due to their marble bonus system. | |
| PDT Partners | NYC | ✔️ | Founded by Pete Muller, very collaborative and secretive culture similar to Rentech. Recruits college students for mainly SWE but some SWE/QR combo roles (dependent on team). Exclusively recruits PhD students for full-time QR roles. | |||
| Peak6 | Chicago | ✅ | ✅ | The internships are geared towards women. The new grad roles are open to everyone. | ||
| QuantLab | Houston | ✔️ | ||||
| Radix Trading | Chicago | ✅ | ✔️ | Founded by ex-Citadel people. Radix calls SWEs Quantitative Technologists. Extremely secretive. | ||
| Renaissance | Setauket- East Setauket | The legendary OG quant fund. They interview some normal people for SWE, but other roles tend to be extremely difficult. | ||||
| Schonfeld | Miami | |||||
| Seven Eight | NYC | |||||
| SIG | Bala Cynwyd | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | Has a huge poker culture. Fairly chill culture but pay tends to be on the lower side, especially for SWEs. Considered one of the best or the best firms for traders to start their career. | |
| Squarepoint | NYC | ✔️ | ||||
| TGS | Irvine | Perception ranges anywhere from JS to RenTech tier. Extremely secretive - not much else is known. | ||||
| Tower Research | NYC | ✔️ | Super clustered into teams - traders tend to be all in one trader-researchers, while devs focus on the platform and general technology. | |||
| TransMarketGroup | Chicago, Puerto Rico | ✅ | Extremely trader led. Also take interns in Puerto Rico. | |||
| Two Sigma | NYC | ✔️ | Founded by ex-DE-Shaw people. Collaborative and chill culture. The org is mostly composed of QRs and SWEs. | |||
| Valkyrie Trading | Chicago | ✔️ | ||||
| Vatic Labs | NYC | ✔️ | Founded by ex-Jump people. Focus on ML. | |||
| Virtu Financial | NYC, Austin | ✔️ | ✔️ | ✔️ | Known for being very HFT MM heavy. | |
| Voleon | Berkeley | ✔️ | Specializes in Machine Learning and recruits college students for SWE roles but primarily recruits PhD students for research roles. | |||
| Wolverine | Chicago | ✔️ | Generally a floor trader style firm. | |||
| WorldQuant | NYC | |||||
| XTX Markets | London | Branched out of GSA capital. Specializes in cutting edge machine learning applied to MM. |