About Da Vinci

Da Vinci is a unique proprietary trading firm, focusing on volatility trading, arbitrage and market making across major exchanges worldwide. We identify opportunities, trade based on in-house strategies, and provide liquidity and efficiency to the markets.

Our philosophy is: Be good, work hard, and great things will happen. We are non-hierarchical and meritocratic, believing empowering our talent to explore their interests and strengths is the best way to grow. We place no limits on personal growth, and everyone has an opportunity to shape the firm’s future alongside their own. We work hard to achieve our goals and have a lot of fun doing it. Our employees are our greatest asset, making the firm what it is. We are constantly looking for smart, talented and passionate people to strengthen our team and support our growth plans.

About the Role

As a Graduate Quant Researcher at Da Vinci, you’ll work alongside a fun team of highly skilled traders and engineers. Our Quant Researchers are key to developing and improving algorithmic trading strategies that help us reach our goal of building one of the best proprietary trading firms in the world. Da Vinci offers an exciting and dynamic work environment, where employees are given the freedom to come up with great ideas and the space to push these to completion. This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to be part of a successful and fast-growing company.

Responsibilities:

• Analysing market data to build new trading strategies
• Developing tools that translate data analysis results into useful inputs for trading
• Continuously analysing and improving our existing strategies
• Improving and refining the data infrastructure and setup
• Evaluating new markets for opportunities

Requirements:

• Technical background (Maths, Physics, Engineering, Econometrics or similar quantitative studies)
• Programming knowledge in Python, MATLAB, R or C++
• Enjoying researching, in-depth analysis, and mathematical modelling
• Ability to understand the theory and translate it into practice
• Good communication skills
• Attention to detail
• Analytical approach to solving complex problems
• Competitive but cooperative attitude
• Proactiveness and entrepreneurial mindset

Benefits

• A once in a lifetime opportunity to be part of a successful and fast-growing young company
• A very exciting and dynamic work environment
• Comprehensive theoretical and practical training by some of the most qualified professionals in the industry
• The freedom to come up with great ideas and the space to push these to completion
• Sign on bonus of EUR 20k, base salary of EUR 80k, excellent variable pay and career prospects
• For people coming from abroad we provide a relocation package, including flight coverage, temp accommodation upon arrival, house finding service and expat support
• Meals during work hours
• Social events and after-work drinks
• Reimbursement of travel costs
• Sponsored gym membership
• In-house game room (pool table, board games and console games)

Currently we are not offering internships or opportunities to write a thesis. This may change in the future. Please visit our website periodically and follow us on social media to stay up to date.