Power & Gas Quantitative Analyst - Algo Research & Development

IMC is continuing to grow its trading initiative in Aarhus, Denmark, to become a major player in the European Power and Gas markets. This expansion is built on a strong foundation of experienced external hires in Trading and internal talent in Technology. With a collaborative and entrepreneurial culture, the team offers a unique opportunity to contribute to shaping and scaling this new business.

The group combines deep expertise with broad trading experience and values innovation, ownership and cross-functional collaboration. As this business continues to grow, there will be increasing opportunities to take on broader responsibilities and contribute meaningfully to its success.

• →Generate and validate high-quality alpha signals using statistical methods and machine learning, with strong focus on robustness and overfitting
• →Combine market microstructure and energy fundamentals to build predictive trading signals
• →Build and maintain reliable, production-ready models with clear testing and validation standards

• 2+ years of experience developing quantitative models, ML-driven signals, or trading strategies in financial futures markets, preferably within energy
• Strong foundation in probability and statistics, with substantial real-world experience applying machine learning or deep learning
• Strong programming skills (Python preferred), with experience writing production-quality code
• Experience working with large-scale time series data
• Practical mindset focused on deployable solutions and real-world trading performance

IMC is a global trading firm powered by a cutting-edge research environment and a world-class technology backbone. Since 1989, we’ve been a stabilizing force in financial markets, providing essential liquidity upon which market participants depend. Across our offices in the US, Europe, Asia Pacific, and India, our talented quant researchers, engineers, traders, and business operations professionals are united by our uniquely collaborative, high-performance culture, and our commitment to giving back. From entering dynamic new markets to embracing disruptive technologies, and from developing an innovative research environment to diversifying our trading strategies, we dare to continuously innovate and collaborate to succeed.