Senior Quantitative Researcher - Market Making

Senior Quantitative Researcher – Options Market Making

London

Maven is a market-leading proprietary trading firm deploying its own capital across discretionary, systematic, and market‑making strategies. Backed by deep expertise in trading, technology, and research, we are relentlessly focused on improving liquidity across global listed derivatives. Through advanced execution and pricing technologies, we improve how financial markets operate.

As a Senior Quantitative Researcher, you will lead projects that have a direct impact on our trading performance. You will work collaboratively with other researchers and traders from various scientific fields and prestigious academic institutions to develop innovative real‑time trading models and solutions for low‑latency trading systems for exchange‑traded options. You will share your knowledge and expertise with other researchers to tackle challenging projects including option pricing and volatility models, algorithm design, and alpha research.

• Academic degree in applied mathematics, computer science, statistics, engineering or physics. A PhD or strong independent research track record.
• Minimum 3+ years of experience in the financial industry, particularly electronic options trading.
• Ability to research advanced algorithms, develop predictive models and verify complex hypotheses using large datasets.
• Proactive interest in improving existing trading strategies and identifying new opportunities.
• A collaborative bridge between developers and traders that aligns technical work with commercial impact and the broader strategic vision, and a real team player with other quants.

• Rare opportunity to take a high level of responsibility at a fast‑growing global trading firm.
• Opportunity to be highly involved in the decisions that shape our trading.
• Flexible research environment to iterate on ideas quickly and see the impact of your work in production.
• Leadership opportunities as the team grows.
• Great engineering environment where technology, creativity and innovation is key to our success.
• An environment where you’re empowered and supported to achieve your ambitions.
• Friendly, informal and highly rewarding culture.
• The upside of a start‑up without the associated risks.

• Competitive compensation.
• Annual discretionary bonus.
• Fully catered breakfast and lunch.
• 25 days’ annual leave.
• Informal dress code.
• Private healthcare and life assurance.

Maven is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to creating a diverse and inclusive culture for its employees. We do not require candidates to answer demographic questions; any information provided is kept confidential and used solely for aggregate monitoring of our recruitment practices.