Quantitative Model Engineer

Shape the Future of Market Integrity at Interactive Brokers.

Interactive Brokers (IBKR) seeks a Quantitative Software Engineer to join our elite transaction surveillance team. You will leverage your quantitative skills and experience in financial markets to develop sophisticated detection systems that identify market manipulation, fraud, and money laundering attempts before they impact market integrity. Your work will directly influence how one of the world's largest electronic brokers protects the financial ecosystem.

Nice to have:

Regulatory background at the SEC, FINRA, or major securities exchanges

Advanced degree in a quantitative discipline

Competitive salary, annual performance-based bonus and stock grant

Retirement plan 401(k) with competitive company match

Excellent health and wellness benefits, including medical, dental, and vision benefits, and a company-paid medical healthcare premium.

Wellness screenings and assessments, health coaches and counseling services through an Employee Assistance Program (EAP)

Daily company lunch allowance is provided, and a fully stocked kitchen with healthy options for breakfast and snack

Corporate events, including team outings, dinners, volunteer activities and company sports teams

Architect next-generation surveillance models to detect emerging manipulation patterns across global markets

Partner with compliance leadership to ensure surveillance systems meet and exceed regulatory expectations

Translate your experience into algorithms that identify suspicious trading and cashiering activity with high accuracy

Conduct sophisticated data analysis on massive financial datasets (hundreds of millions of daily orders, millions of daily trades)

Evaluate model performance to optimize detection accuracy while minimizing false positives

Document methodologies to withstand regulatory scrutiny and examination.