Akuna Capital’s office in Cambridge, Massachusetts is seeking two student interns to join our team in the quantitative development area this summer. Our small Cambridge office was established at the end of 2014 with an emphasis on data analysis and new trading strategies development, and the team is looking for students to assist to help solve a variety of quantitative problems and learn more about the proprietary trading industry!

We are an extremely fast-growing derivatives trading firm headquartered in downtown Chicago, specializing in market-making and arbitrage. Founded in 2011, Akuna has quickly grown from a start-up to a successful leader on US options and futures exchanges with offices in Chicago, Cambridge, Shanghai and Champaign.

• Pursuing a MS or PhD in Computer Science, Engineering, Math, Physics or related field

• Graduating in 2017 or 2018

• Strong programming background, Python preferred (first round testing will be provided in Python only)

• Strong analytic and problem-solving skills

• Ability to communicate with the trading team, obtain requirements, find solutions and implement them in a clean and concise way

• Create an easily understood and testable codebase that can change as quickly as market conditions require passion for innovation and building systems from the ground up

• Major GPA of 3.0 or above

• Please note, you must be enrolled in a university local to Cambridge, MA in order to apply to this position.

• Experience with Python numpy, pandas packages is a plus;

• Experience with C++/CUDA a plus

Akuna Capital was founded in the summer of 2011 with only five employees, but with ambitions big enough to choose an office large enough for a hundred. Just three years later, we’ve surpassed capacity in our Chicago Loop office. The space that was once a bit bare and echo-y to start is now bustling with activity, and we’ve expanded onto an additional floor in our Chicago building and 3 additional offices across the US and China, with more international expansion sure to come. Even though we’ve grown significantly from small (but determined) beginnings, we proudly retain the spirit of a smaller, entrepreneurial start-up.