Lead the effort to build and run the equity options market making desk for one of the major US equity trading and market making firms. This is a unique opportunity to start a new initiative from the ground up within a highly successful existing trading group.  This role will require at least three years of experience in automated options market making with excellent understanding of vanilla equity options modeling, equity options markets and their microstructure.  This Quantitative Analyst will work within a successful quantitative equity trading group in building out a new suite of strategies trading options. The individual is expected to contribute to the core strategy and would have considerable latitude to develop his or her own strategies.  Competitive compensation.

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