Jobs at iSAM

Monitor and optimize algorithmic trading strategies, ensuring operations remain within risk and compliance limits. Support global clients, manage communications during incidents, oversee internal connectivity systems, translate technical updates, and collaborate with sales and internal teams to convert client needs into strategy requirements. The role is on-site and involves weekend plus three weekday shifts.

Lead the development of exchange market-making and OTC inventory liquidation strategies across FX, precious metals, futures, and cryptocurrency markets. Research market microstructure, order-book behavior, liquidity, and adverse selection using high-frequency data. Build realistic simulations and backtests, deploy and monitor live strategies, improve performance and resilience, and establish research governance. The role will eventually define research direction and recruit, mentor, and lead a quantitative trading team.

PhD graduate embedded in a quantitative research team to develop, implement and test systematic investment strategies. Analyse large financial datasets, design statistical models in Python, document results, and present findings to senior researchers and portfolio managers.

Identify, evaluate and onboard high-quality datasets for systematic funds and capital markets. Own and publicise the internal data catalogue, build provider relationships, and contribute to firm-wide data strategy.

The Helix Software Engineer will manage the ISAM Helix Trading System, improve trade execution, onboard new brokers, and enhance system architecture while supporting production.

Join the Bridge front office team to re-engineer and maintain an MT4/MT5/FIX bridge. Build robust backend systems in Java, design APIs, debug across the stack, support production on a rota, and contribute to front-end usability. Work collaboratively in a small, agile London-based team.

12-week summer internship for PhD students to conduct quantitative research in trading and systematic investing. Work includes analysing large financial datasets, developing and backtesting quantitative models using Python and statistical libraries, validating strategies, maintaining research infrastructure, and presenting findings to senior researchers and trading teams.

Lead end-to-end research, development and live management of systematic trading strategies across global markets. Responsibilities include signal research, model and portfolio construction, risk management, implementation, tool and dataset development, monitoring production strategies, communicating findings to stakeholders and clients, and mentoring junior researchers.

Join the Helix StatArb team to develop, maintain, and support high-performance quantitative trading systems. Work on large-scale data processing, statistical modeling, portfolio construction, execution monitoring, and DAG-based concurrent data frameworks. Collaborate with researchers, own system components, and participate in live trading support and rota duties to ensure robust, scalable production trading infrastructure and improved execution quality.

Join iSAM Vector as a Quantitative Researcher to design, test and implement systematic trading signals across global markets. Responsibilities include signal research, backtesting, model refinement, dataset and tool development, portfolio construction support, and communicating results to technical and non-technical stakeholders.

Architect, build and operate low-latency distributed trading systems (market data, order routing, execution, risk, messaging). Drive technical direction, improve systems and engineering processes, reason about latency across network/hardware/OS/language layers, and deliver large cross-team efforts to meet demanding latency targets.

Design, develop, deploy and support the iSAM Vector systematic trading platform across the full trading lifecycle (market data ingestion, signal computation, portfolio/position management, order generation, execution, trade capture). Collaborate with Research, Quant Development and Execution teams, deliver enhancements, support production systems on a rota, and contribute to platform architecture and reliability.

The Account Manager builds client relationships, drives revenue growth, manages accounts, resolves issues, and identifies sales opportunities.