Akuna Capital quant salary and jobs
A Chicago options market maker with junior listings in all three tracks and a posted $145,000 base floor.
Quant roles at Akuna Capital
Akuna Capital is an options market-making firm headquartered in Chicago. It runs junior full-time listings for traders, quantitative researchers and quantitative developers alongside internships, and it is one of the more accessible entry points on this list for candidates without a top-firm internship.
Akuna’s board showed 30 postings on Nov 11, 2026, 18 of them US quant, research or engineering reqs, 17 in Chicago.
Akuna Capital quant salary
Base: Akuna posts a floor rather than a range — “In accordance with Illinois Equal Pay Act, the minimum base salary starts at $145,000” — on Junior Trader, Junior Quantitative Researcher, Junior Quantitative Developer & Strategist and its experienced trading, research and C++ listings, read from Akuna’s board on Nov 11, 2026. Internship listings post the same $145,000 as a minimum annualized base. Actual offers can be higher; no maximum is posted.
Akuna Capital pay by track
| Track | Role title | New-grad base | Summer 2027 internship | Experienced base | Open now |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Quant trader | Junior Trader | From $145k | One-week Sneak Peek Weeks, pay not posted | From $145k | Yes |
| Quant researcher | Junior Quantitative Researcher | From $145k | From $145k annualized | From $145k | Yes |
| Quant developer | Junior Quantitative Developer & Strategist | From $145k | From $145k annualized | From $145k | Yes |
Posted base pay, except figures marked “package”, which are the firm’s estimated annual compensation package. Bonuses, sign-on payments and housing are extra to base pay.
What Akuna Capital employees report
Self-reported total compensation from Levels.fyi. These are not posted figures and play no part in the ranking. They cover every office and all years of experience, and the site does not show how many reports are behind each one.
| Title on Levels.fyi | Total compensation |
|---|---|
| Software Engineer | Junior $223K · Senior $491K |
| Trader | Median $250K |
Only figures the site labels a median or breaks out by level are shown. Source: Levels.fyi, read November 11, 2026.
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