Career explorer

15 companies · 45 mapped roles · 5 career tracks

Honest preparation for quantitative hiring. Facts marked sourced come from official career pages with retrieval dates; patterns are labelled inferred — never presented as guarantees.

Companies profiled

Roles mapped

157

Competency areas

Career tracks

5 tracks · one curriculum each

Track A

Asset Management & Quantitative Investment Engineering

Typical employers: BlackRock and major asset managers

Portfolio analytics, factor models, backtesting, Python research infrastructure and data platforms.

Mapped curriculum

Track B

Investment Banking Quantitative Development

Typical employers: JPMorgan, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, Barclays, UBS

Derivatives, pricing engines, numerical methods, stochastic calculus, C++ pricing libraries, risk analytics.

Mapped curriculum

Track C

High-Frequency Trading & Low-Latency Systems

Typical employers: Jane Street, Citadel Securities, Optiver, IMC, Jump Trading

Advanced C++, memory, CPU architecture, lock-free concurrency, networking and order-book systems.

Mapped curriculum

Track D

Quantitative Research Engineering

Typical employers: Two Sigma, SIG, Millennium and research-heavy funds

Scientific Python, statistics, ML foundations, research pipelines and reproducible infrastructure.

Mapped curriculum

Track E

Financial Infrastructure & Platform Engineering

Typical employers: Bloomberg, exchanges, market-data and platform teams

Distributed systems, databases, streaming, market-data ingestion, reliability and observability.

Mapped curriculum

Track ?

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Requirements matrix

Updated 2026-11-09

Legend:essentialfrequently requiredrole-dependentvaries by seat

Skill	Asset managers	Banks	Prop trading	Hedge funds	Market data
pythonⓘ	essential	essential	essential	essential	frequently required
cppⓘ	role-dependent	frequently required	frequently required	frequently required	frequently required
dsaⓘ	frequently required	essential	essential	essential	frequently required
probabilityⓘ	frequently required	frequently required	essential	essential	role-dependent
statisticsⓘ	essential	frequently required	frequently required	essential	frequently required
linear algebraⓘ	frequently required	role-dependent	desirable	frequently required	role-dependent
calculus/numerical methodsⓘ	role-dependent	frequently required	desirable	role-dependent	desirable
financial knowledgeⓘ	frequently required	frequently required	desirable	frequently required	desirable
systems designⓘ	role-dependent	frequently required	frequently required	frequently required	frequently required
databases/SQLⓘ	frequently required	frequently required	role-dependent	frequently required	frequently required
concurrency/low latencyⓘ	role-dependent	role-dependent	advanced specialization	role-dependent	frequently required
networkingⓘ	desirable	role-dependent	frequently required	role-dependent	frequently required
machine learningⓘ	frequently required	role-dependent	role-dependent	frequently required	desirable
linux/toolingⓘ	frequently required	frequently required	essential	frequently required	frequently required

Company preparation profiles

15 firms

BInvestment banking

Barclays

Structured products tech with unusually concrete published skill bars.

3 roles 15 areas 3 tracks

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BAsset management

BlackRock

Aladdin — one of the largest risk platforms in asset management.

3 roles 9 areas 2 tracks

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BMarket data & fintech

Bloomberg

Terminals, data pipelines and platform reliability at global scale.

3 roles 10 areas 2 tracks

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CProprietary trading

Citadel Securities

Market making with demanding C++ and low-latency interviews.

3 roles 10 areas 2 tracks

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GInvestment banking

Goldman Sachs

The best-documented hiring prep of any bank — platforms and strats.

3 roles 10 areas 2 tracks

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IMarket making

IMC Trading

Publishes its full recruitment process — rare and genuinely useful.

3 roles 10 areas 2 tracks

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JProprietary trading

Jane Street

OCaml-first trading tech; famously explicit interview guidance.

3 roles 9 areas 2 tracks

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JInvestment banking

JPMorganChase

A structured how-we-hire journey across payments and markets tech.

3 roles 9 areas 2 tracks

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JProprietary trading

Jump Trading

Research-driven prop trading with a performance-first C++ culture.

3 roles 10 areas 3 tracks

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MAsset management

Millennium

Multi-manager platform: many pods, heavy research infrastructure.

3 roles 10 areas 3 tracks

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MInvestment banking

Morgan Stanley

Broad markets-and-banking tech org; breadth-oriented hiring.

3 roles 9 areas 2 tracks

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OMarket making

Optiver

One of the few firms publishing an official SWE interview guide.

3 roles 10 areas 2 tracks

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SProprietary trading

Susquehanna International Group (SIG)

Speed, probability and low-latency C++ under exchange constraints.

3 roles 10 areas 2 tracks

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TAsset management

Two Sigma

Data-driven fund: research engineering and platform at scale.

3 roles 11 areas 2 tracks

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UInvestment banking

UBS

Concrete skill bars published on its own job board.

3 roles 15 areas 3 tracks

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Resume guidance for quantitative developers

Present projects with evidence

Quantify: “order book sustaining 1.2M updates/s with p99 match latency 3.4µs (benchmark included in repo)” beats “built a fast order book”. Every claimed number must be reproducible from your repository — a reviewer may check.

Structure

One page for internships and graduate roles. Projects with metrics, then skills grouped honestly (C++17/20, Python, NumPy/pandas, SQL, Linux), then education. No skill bars, no invented familiarity.

What reviewers screen for

Evidence of C++ depth (memory, concurrency, performance work), numerical/linear algebra coursework or projects, and genuine algorithmic practice. Research infrastructure and reproducible benchmarks read stronger than buzzwords.

Credibility rule

Never invent accomplishments, benchmark results or employment history. If you cannot demonstrate it, do not claim it — interviewers probe every line.

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