About this role
IMC Trading has a vacancy for the role of Quant Performance Engineer in Chicago, United States. The listing states a salary of $200,000. The listing was posted on Aug 27, 2026. PakkiNaukri collects this listing from the employer's own posting and re-checks it — the employer's full description and the application itself are on the original listing, linked from this page.
From the employer's listing (short excerpt)
Technology is at the heart of modern electronic trading. IMC is seeking highly driven graduates to apply quantitative techniques and practical experimentation to the technology used by exchanges, connectivity providers, and our own systems. You will develop new strategies to outpace other market participants in the highly competitive world of ultra-low-latency trading.
Your Core Responsibilities:
Perform quantitative research with large datasets to understand exchange technology.
Design novel strategies to optimize IMC’s liquidity taking and quoting strategies for exchange microstructure.
Develop ETL pipelines and algorithms in Python to optimize IMC’s ultra-low-latency trading strategies
Explore novel uses of frontier LLMs to accelerate data and research tasks
Reverse-engineer and stress-test network and systems programming technologies in order to understand them better than the manufacturers.
Collaborate closely with Traders and with the Hardware and Software Engineers who will implement your ideas.