Quantitative Trader

About Akuna:

Akuna Capital is an innovative trading firm with a strong focus on collaboration, cutting-edge technology, data driven solutions and automation. We specialise in providing liquidity as an options market maker – meaning we are committed to providing competitive quotes that we are willing to both buy and sell. To do this successfully we design and implement our own low latency technologies, trading strategies and mathematical models. At Akuna we have a flat structure, where the best idea wins.

Our Founding Partners, including Andrew Killion, first conceptualized Akuna in their hometown of Sydney. They opened the firm’s first office in 2011 in the heart of the derivatives industry and the options capital of the world – Chicago. Today, Akuna is proud to operate from additional offices in Sydney, Shanghai, Singapore and London.

• 3+ years of professional work experience in Options Trading or related field


• BS/MS/PhD in a technical field – Engineering, Statistics, Computer Science, Mathematics, Physics, or similar


• Understanding of advanced Mathematics: Calculus, Probability, Linear Algebra, Statistics and Optimization


• Working knowledge of statistical analysis, numerical linear algebra, machine learning or convex optimization


• Intermediate programming skills in Python (C++ is a plus)