Quantitative Model Engineer

📋 Description

• • As a Quantitative Model Engineer at Interactive Brokers, you will join the elite transaction surveillance team to develop sophisticated detection systems that identify market manipulation, fraud, and money laundering before they impact market integrity, directly protecting the financial ecosystem of one of the world’s largest electronic brokers.
• • Your day-to-day responsibilities will include architecting next-generation surveillance models to detect emerging manipulation patterns across global markets, partnering with compliance leadership to ensure systems meet regulatory expectations, translating experience into high-accuracy algorithms for suspicious trading and cashiering activity, conducting sophisticated data analysis on massive financial datasets (hundreds of millions of daily orders, millions of daily trades), evaluating model performance to optimize detection accuracy while minimizing false positives, and documenting methodologies to withstand regulatory scrutiny.
• • You will be part of a dynamic, multi-national team at Interactive Brokers Group, Inc., a global financial services leader headquartered in Greenwich, CT, with offices in over 15 countries and recognized by Barron’s as the #1 online broker for six consecutive years, known for cutting-edge technology and client commitment in serving individual investors and institutions across 200+ countries.
• • In this role, you will deepen your expertise in financial market surveillance, regulatory compliance systems, and large-scale data analytics, while advancing your ability to design and validate models that uphold market integrity under real-world regulatory scrutiny, positioning you as a specialist in a critical niche of financial technology.