Teams at Virtu Financial

The Quantitative Strategist role involves building predictive models, developing trading strategies, analyzing risks, and automating research tasks in a collaborative financial firm environment.

Design and develop RTL for low-latency FPGA and ASIC trading applications, owning hardware designs from specification through verification and production deployment. Improve build, simulation, and verification infrastructure, and coordinate live hardware deployments. The role requires FPGA or ASIC experience, strong SystemVerilog or VHDL and cocotb skills, familiarity with vendor toolchains, and knowledge of high-speed interfaces such as Ethernet, PCIe, and AXI.

Work with senior traders to design, operate, and improve high-performance algorithmic trading strategies. Apply quantitative analysis to transform large data sets into trading models, solve real-market problems across desks (FX, fixed income, options, ETFs, energy), and collaborate with quants and engineers on strategy enhancements during a hands-on 10-week internship.