About Us
Radix Trading is a research firm, powered by technology and monetized through trading. Our focus is building a new type of trading firm dedicated to research through targeted collaboration and vast ingenuity. We’re constantly evolving our strategies and developing new ones through innovative machine learning and statistical methodologies.
Our culture of openness enables fast turnaround from idea inception to execution, and continuous enhancement of our cutting-edge proprietary technology and automated research platform.
We operate in Chicago, New York, and Amsterdam, and participate on major electronic markets across North America, Europe and Asia. As a privately-funded company, we do not accept outside investments.
University Graduates
If you want to work on cutting-edge technology to solve really tough problems while getting near-immediate feedback on your best ideas, the trading industry is hard to beat. You will be part of the team that competes every day with some of the smartest, most driven people in the world.
And while the highly-publicized wave of high-frequency or “flash” trading based on sheer speed of execution may have reached its limit, we see continued opportunities with our strategy of using statistical research to outsmart the competition.
We are building a new type of trading firm dedicated to research through open, collaborative innovation. We are adding new associates into these roles:
Quantitative Researcher (Full-Time)
By working on a variety of projects with different collaborators over a six-month period, you’ll gain new knowledge and insight into the fundamentals of market dynamics, trading strategies, and our proprietary research platform. We’ve stripped away the boundaries of what you can access and touch internally, so while you learn the intricacies of our industry, you’ll have plenty of opportunities to contribute and directly affect our bottom line within your first few weeks on the team.
While interest in trading is key, a background in finance is definitely not. Our team is built mostly from academia — professors, postdocs, PhDs, and undergraduates — not from other trading firms. We seek mental diversity and add a select group of academics each year from a wide range of disciplines.
RESEARCH SKILLS
We’re looking for highly analytical people (math, physics, computer science, statistics, electrical engineering, etc.) who want to help build the research-driven trading firm of the future. To do that, you’ll need the following qualities:
- Persistent Drive to Improve - Do you have an innate desire to rise to the next level, even after great accomplishment?
- Creative Problem Solving and Probabilistic Thinking - You must enjoy learning and implementing new concepts quickly, combining knowledge from different domains to create new ideas, and take a data-driven and probabilistic approach to testing and implementing new ideas.
- Team Mindset - We want people who understand 1+1 > 2 and are as committed to making the team better through sharing ideas as they are driven to improve their individual performance.
- Mental Flexibility & Self Awareness - You’ll have to frequently adapt based on new data, results, and feedback on your trading ideas and your performance.
- Orientation for Making Money - Although we value academic training, our work is not an academic exercise. We take a hacker’s approach to testing ideas, dropping projects that consume time without high upside, and focusing our next efforts on what will create the most value for the firm.
Interested? Contact us at university@radix-trading.com & please include a copy of your cv/resume & transcripts (unofficial copies are okay).
Quantitative Researcher (Intern)
While the focus is on identifying trading opportunities, you can add even more value with strong quantitative skills and some coding proficiency to accelerate the innovation process and help others leverage your work.
While interest in trading is key, a background in finance is definitely not. Our team is built mostly from academia — professors, postdocs, PhDs, and undergraduates — not from other trading firms. We seek mental diversity and add a select group of academics each year from a wide range of disciplines.
RESEARCH SKILLS
- Strong intuition and deep thinking with data sets - designs new predictive signals
- Demonstrates strong “hacking” ability to quickly get into data to look for empirical relationships and decipher noise or signal
- Familiarity with statistical and machine learning techniques and knows when and how to apply them; will seek out and learn new methods to better solve problems
- Constantly questions finance/trading data and stays motivated to seek answers
- Understanding of financial products, market dynamics, and microstructure
Interested? Contact us at university@radix-trading.com & please include a copy of your cv/resume & transcripts (unofficial copies are okay).
Quantitative Technologist (Full-Time)
As a Quantitative Technologist, your goal is to enhance live trading systems, research infrastructure, and alpha generation through technology innovation.
We leverage cutting-edge software and hardware to push production level code daily and evolve fully-automated strategies, alpha generation processes, live trading systems, and machine learning research and simulation infrastructure used to analyze petabytes of data.
SOFTWARE DEVELOPMENT SKILLS
- Experience or interest in Low-level computer languages like C or C++; awareness of strength in particular language and ability to solve more complex problems due to understanding nuances of the language
- Understanding of data structures, algorithmic complexities, and numerical algorithms
- Systems Architecture - knowledge and experience with distributed systems and communication
- Software Architecture - knowledge and experience working with a large code base
- Development Processes - experience delivering and deploying software in production environments
Interested? Contact us at university@radix-trading.com & please include a copy of your cv/resume & transcripts (unofficial copies are okay).
DevOps/Systems Engineer (Full-Time)
As a Technologist your goal is to enhance live trading systems, research infrastructure, and alpha generation through technology innovation.
Our DevOps team is specifically responsible for ensuring efficacy of our trading machines and the translation of research to production. The ability to execute in a fast-paced environment is crucial for this team, as you’ll be manipulating Linux on the fly, identifying errors and inefficiencies quickly and designing solutions to challenges within systems, networking, and general architecture on a daily basis.
SOFTWARE & TECHNICAL DEVELOPMENT SKILLS
- Experience with Python and experience, or desire to gain experience, with low-level languages like C++ a plus
- Tinkering mindset w/interest and/or experience with Linux Systems
- Understanding of data structures, algorithmic complexities, and numerical algorithms
- Systems Architecture - knowledge and experience with distributed systems and communication
- Software Architecture - knowledge and experience working with a large code base
- Development Processes - experience delivering and deploying software in production environments
Interested? Contact us at university@radix-trading.com & please include a copy of your cv/resume & transcripts (unofficial copies are okay).
Quantitative Business Analyst (Full-Time)
As part of a lean Business Team, you’ll work directly with a range of functions and their leads to design and execute tools and processes for business development, post-trade analysis, trade operations, compliance, risk assessment.
You’ll conduct research to help evaluate new business opportunities, and build dashboards, predictive models, and other tools to inform data-driven business decisions.
Qualifications
We’re looking for highly analytical people who want to help build the research-driven trading firm of the future. And to do that, you’ll need the following qualities:
- Proficient at data mining, extraction and organization of raw format data from various sources such as GreenHouse, payroll system, gitlab, and more. Experience, or a desire to learn, Tableau & other user interface tools that require data-input and entries is helpful as well.
- Proficient in Python coding, especially in scripting and automation
- Proficient in R or similar statistical tools --- ability to quickly and accurately perform statistical analysis.
- Detail oriented and can easily identify key influencing factors; able to quickly retain historical highlights to focus on future improvements.
- Results driven ---- able to drive tasks to completion in a timely manner
- Ability to multitask --- iterate quickly towards a better solution while not dropping the ball on other concurrent functions.
- Analytical ---- ability to understand the full scope and depth of the issue, able to solve for the long-term.
Interested? Contact us at university@radix-trading.com & please include a copy of your cv/resume & transcripts (unofficial copies are okay).
Experienced Applicants
If you want to work on cutting-edge technology to solve really tough problems while getting near-immediate feedback on your best ideas, the trading industry is hard to beat. You will be part of the team that competes every day with some of the smartest, most driven people in the world.
And while the highly-publicized wave of high-frequency or “flash” trading based on sheer speed of execution may have reached its limit, we see continued opportunities with our strategy of using statistical research to outsmart the competition.
We are building a new type of trading firm dedicated to research through open, collaborative innovation. We are adding new associates into these roles:
Quantitative Technologist
Your goal is to enhance alpha generation and improve the research infrastructure through technology innovation. You’ll also be expected to have a strong interest in understanding and contributing to our trading strategies.
Quantitative Researcher
While the focus is on identifying trading opportunities, you can add even more value with strong quantitative skills and some coding proficiency to accelerate the innovation process and help others leverage your work.
Trade Operations Developer
Be the architect responsible for building tools to support post-trade analysis. In this role, you will be expected to deliver on key operational milestones by leveraging communication, technical, and organizational skills.