Performance Engineer Intern - Summer 2027

IMC · Chicago

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Company
IMC
Location
Chicago
Employment type
Internship
Salary
$200,000
Posted
August 27, 2026

About this job

Technology is at the heart of modern electronic trading. IMC is seeking highly driven interns to apply quantitative techniques and practical experimentation to the technology used by exchanges, connectivity providers, and our own systems. Your Core Responsibilities: Perform quantitative research with large datasets to understand exchange technology. Design novel strategies to optimize IMC’s liquidity taking and quoting strategies for exchange microstructure. Develop AI agents, ETL pipelines and algorithms in Python to optimize IMC’s ultra-low-latency trading strategies. Reverse-engineer and stress-test network and systems programming technologies in order to understand them better than the manufacturers.

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