IMC Trading quant salary and jobs
A Dutch-rooted market maker with a posted $250,000 base for graduate researchers and trading interns in Chicago.
Quant roles at IMC Trading
IMC is a global market maker founded in Amsterdam, with its US headquarters in Chicago and a growing New York office. Traders, researchers and engineers work on the same desks, and the graduate program posts a single base figure per role. Its New York deep-learning research roles post the highest campus figure at the firm.
IMC’s board showed 158 postings on Nov 11, 2026, 43 of them US quant, research or engineering reqs across Chicago (37) and New York (10).
IMC Trading quant salary
Base: the range across IMC’s live US graduate listings on Nov 11, 2026 — $250,000 on Graduate Quantitative Researcher (BS/MS and PhD) in Chicago, $300,000 on Graduate Deep Learning Researcher in New York, and $200,000 on Software Engineer, Early Career. Summer 2027 internships are posted annualized: $250,000 for Quantitative Trader Intern and Quantitative Research Intern, $200,000 for Software Engineer Intern. Experienced listings post $175,000–$275,000 for Quantitative Researcher, $250,000–$300,000 on desk-specific researcher reqs and $175,000–$225,000 for C++ Software Engineer.
IMC Trading pay by track
| Track | Role title | New-grad base | Summer 2027 internship | Experienced base | Open now |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Quant trader | Quantitative Trader | Not posted | $250k annualized | $175k–$250k | Yes |
| Quant researcher | Graduate Quantitative Researcher | $250k | $250k annualized | $175k–$300k | Yes |
| Quant developer | Software Engineer, Early Career | $200k | $200k annualized | $175k–$225k | 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 IMC Trading 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 | L1 $166K · L2 $177K · L3 $171K · L4 $194K |
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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