Quant Performance Engineer Intern - Summer 2027
IMC, Chicago
The role
Technology is at the heart of modern electronic trading. IMC is seeking highly driven interns to apply quantitative techniques and practical experimentation to the technology used by exchanges, connectivity providers, and our own systems.
What you will do
- 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.