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About the Role

Tower Research Capital is a leading quantitative trading firm seeking talented individuals to contribute to its high-performance platform and innovative trading strategies. Employees will find a stimulating, results-oriented environment where highly intelligent and motivated colleagues inspire each other to reach their greatest potential.

Responsibilities

• Designing, implementing, and deploying high-frequency trading algorithms
• Working with a dedicated mentor to research and enhance existing trading strategies
• Exploring trading ideas by analyzing market data and market microstructure for patterns
• Creating tools to analyze data for patterns
• Contributing to libraries of analytical computations to support market data analysis and trading
• Developing, augmenting, and calibrating exchange simulators

Requirements

• Availability for 4-6 months or 10-week summer term
• PhD student focusing on mathematics, statistics, physics, electrical engineering, computer science, economics, or related fields
• A strong background in C++, R, Python, or an object-oriented programming language
• Strong problem-solving abilities
• A passion for new technologies and ideas
• The ability to manage multiple tasks in a fast-paced environment
• Strong communication skills
• Interest in financial markets
• Past industry experience
• Experience with machine learning

Skills

• C++
• R
• Python
• Object-oriented programming
• Machine learning

Location

• New York

Work Type

• Full-time
• Internship

Experience Level

• PhD Student

Education Level

• PhD

Salary/Compensations

• $3,500-5,700 weekly

Benefits

• Competitive compensation package
• Free breakfast, lunch, and snacks daily
• Exciting networking and social events
• Opportunities to learn from senior management
• Mentors from your alma mater and other top institutions

About the Company

• Tower Research Capital is a leading quantitative trading firm founded in 1998, built on a high-performance platform and independent trading teams with a 25+ year track record of innovation.
• Tower is home to some of the world’s best systematic trading and engineering talent, empowering portfolio managers to build teams and strategies independently.
• Engineers thrive at Tower developing electronic trading infrastructure at a world-class level, solving challenging problems in low-latency programming, FPGA technology, hardware acceleration, and machine learning.
• Ongoing investment in engineering talent and technology ensures an unmatched platform in functionality, scalability, and performance.
• Business Support teams are essential to building and maintaining the platform that powers everything, enabling trading and engineering teams to perform at their best.
• Tower’s headquarters are in NYC’s Financial District with a global impact and over a dozen offices worldwide.
• Tower fosters a culture where smart, driven people thrive without egos, valuing a friendly, collaborative environment with an open concept workplace, casual dress code, and well-stocked kitchens.

Equal Opportunity

• Tower Research Capital is an equal opportunity employer.