Explore Optiver’s
internship program

INTERNSHIPS

Your chance to achieve
exponential growth

Optiver’s internship program isn’t just a step forward in your career – it’s a launch pad. Get ready to be immersed in the fast-paced, dynamic world of market making. Owning projects that directly impact our world-class trading systems. Collaborating with and mentored by the industry’s best and brightest. Not to mention having fun exploring the cities in which we operate alongside your class of global peers.

With Optiver’s internship program, your work improving the market starts today.

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Our program

An immersive program to unlock the rest of your career

Optiver approaches its internship as a long-term investment. By undergoing the same trainings and work as our full-time tech, trading and data science teams, you’ll see what impact you can make at a leading global trading firm. By the end of your internship, our goal is to have identified future colleagues to return to our world-class teams after graduating. It’s not just a summer gig. It’s a crash course designed to unlock the rest of your career.

INTERNSHIPS

You bring the talent,
we take care of the rest

At Optiver, we believe the best equipped go furthest. To enable you to hit the ground running, our internship delivers everything you need to feel productive, motivated and balanced. This means no detail is overlooked in taking care of your total well-being.

It all starts with where you live. To make you feel right at home, our interns are provided with complimentary fully furnished, deluxe accommodation. In the office, you’ll see that every day is game day at Optiver. To keep you energised, we provide healthy meals and snacks, and our baristas brew the rocket fuel. With your nutrition tended to, it’s go time.

To fast-track your knowledge, you’ll receive the same trainings as our full-time tech and trading team members. But it’s not all about professional development. We also care about creating an experience that leaves you with a solid network and great memories. That’s why our interns have the opportunity to participate in a variety of social outings and events from city tours to chess tournaments.

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Not sure which direction to take? Hear from others who joined our internships.

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Hear from our interns

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A day in the life

Get a glimpse of a day in the life of an Optiver intern.

OUR disciplines

Find your path

Excited by the prospect of interning at Optiver? Don’t hesitate to apply for next year’s open roles. Our program is constantly growing – and we’re looking for bright sparks like you.

Trading internship

As Optiver’s trading intern, you’ll deep-dive into the fundamentals of trading, from theory to financial markets, strategies and cutting-edge technology. But you won’t only receive our intensive in-house training – you’ll put your knowledge into practice through simulated trading. Requiring a competitive edge, decisive thinking and bold action, our program is as close as you can get to real trading experience. What’s more: the projects you fully own and develop will be implemented directly into our trading desks, meaning you’ll contribute to our ever-evolving strategies. Get ready to test your limits on one of the most dynamic and exciting trading floors.

Technology internship

As Optiver’s tech intern, you will lead entrepreneurial projects that solve Optiver’s real-world challenges. In only a couple of weeks, you’ll develop latency-critical applications that help us improve the markets. With guidance from your mentor, team and senior developers, you’ll experience the excitement of a fast-paced development cycle – owning a tight feedback loop, testing and shipping your code to production. By collaborating with traders and researchers, you’ll get an inside look at tech at Optiver, as well as fast-track your development. This is your chance to directly impact the business.

Research and data science internships

As Optiver’s research or data science intern, you’ll put your brilliant quantitative skills to the test by developing and improving our trading strategies. You’ll not only deep-dive the fundamentals of Optiver’s complex trading systems but see firsthand how this theory translates into practice on our dynamic trading floor. Over the course of a couple of weeks, you’ll be tasked with exploring a real-world research problem that directly influences how Optiver trades. With two mentors from research and trading, you’ll get the support and guidance needed to maximise your impact and grow our bottom line.

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