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title: "2027 Shanghai Performance Researcher Summer Internship"
company: "Optiver"
company_url: "https://www.remjobs.works/companies/optiver"
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apply_url: "https://www.optiver.com/join-us/jobs/8732789002/?gh_jid=8732789002"
workplace: onsite
location: "Shanghai, China"
employment_type: unspecified
seniority: internship
role: other
region: asia-pacific
skills: ["cpp", "linux", "python"]
date_posted: 2026-09-08T01:18:06.000Z
first_seen_by_remjobs: 2026-09-15T19:11:53.680Z
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# 2027 Shanghai Performance Researcher Summer Internship

**Optiver** · Shanghai, China

Apply: https://www.optiver.com/join-us/jobs/8732789002/?gh_jid=8732789002

## About Optiver

Technology, quantitative research and trading expertise come together to solve complex market challenges and improve financial markets. Explore careers across trading, engineering and quantitative research.

## About the role

As our Performance Researcher Intern, you’ll spend your summer delving into complex, data-driven problems at one of the world’s leading tech-driven trading firms. Under the guidance and mentorship of industry experts, you’ll apply your critical mindset and strong technical skills to drive measurable improvements to trading execution.

Through a mix of trading lectures, coursework and hands-on project experience, you’ll have deepened your understanding of the quantitative trading industry and mastered the practical skills needed to drive our trading success by the end of the 8-week internship. Plus, if you’ve excelled over the summer, you’ll receive an offer to return as a Graduate Performance Researcher.

**What you’ll do:**

- You will investigate real execution-performance problems across market data, our low-latency trading systems, networks, broker infrastructure, and exchanges. You will use data, experiments, and systems thinking to explain observed behavior and identify opportunities to improve trading execution.

- Analyze market, order, system, and network data to reconstruct event flows and uncover performance patterns.

- Develop hypotheses and run statistical experiments or black-box analysis to understand complex system behavior.

- Build analyses, prototypes, metrics, and visualizations to test ideas and quantify results.

- Work with traders, researchers, and engineers to evaluate and implement improvements.

**What you’ll get: **

You’ll join a culture of collaboration and excellence, where you’ll be surrounded by curious thinkers and creative problem solvers. Driven by a passion for continuous improvement, you’ll thrive in a supportive, high-performing environment alongside talented colleagues, working collectively to tackle the most complex problems in the financial markets.

In addition, you’ll receive:

- A highly competitive remuneration package.

- Optiver-covered flights and accommodation for the duration of the internship.

- The opportunity to work alongside diverse and intelligent peers in a rewarding environment.

- Training, mentorship and personal development opportunities.

- Gym membership, plus weekly in-house chair massages.

- Daily breakfast, lunch and in-house barista.

- Regular social events. 

**Who you are:**

- University student graduating in 2028 or after 2027 September.

- Pursuing or recently completed a technical degree such as Computer Science, Computer Engineering, Electronic or Communication Engineering, or a related field.

- Strong foundations in computer systems and quantitative reasoning, with depth in areas such as operating systems, networking, computer architecture, software/hardware systems.

- Proficient in Python and data-analysis skills; experience with Linux, C++, large-scale data tools is a plus.

- Curious, analytical, and detail-oriented, with strong problem-solving and learning ability.

- Evidence of technical depth through research, systems or networking projects, internships, or substantial personal projects.

**How to apply:**

Don’t miss your chance to accelerate your career and thrive on one of the most dynamic trading floors in mainland China. **Apply now via the form below. **

In your application, please submit the following materials in English:

- Resume

- Cover letter (optional)

**Questions? **Please email chinacareers@optiver.com.au.

We accept one application per role per year. If you have previously applied to this position during this season and have been unsuccessful, you can re-apply when the next recruitment season begins in 2027.

**Diversity statement**

Optiver is committed to [diversity and inclusion](https://optiver.com/diversity-statement/). We encourage applications from candidates of all backgrounds, and welcome requests for reasonable adjustments during the process.

**Privacy disclaimer**

Optiver 重视个人信息的保护。请您在提供个人信息给我们之前，认真阅读Optiver China Privacy Notice, 了解我们如何收集及处理您的个人信息。

Personal information protection is of utmost importance to Optiver. Before you provide any personal information to us, we strongly urge you to read our [Privacy Policy](https://optiver.com/privacypolicy/) to acknowledge how we collect and process your personal information.

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