Virtu Financial quant salary and jobs
A publicly traded market maker hiring PhD researchers and engineers through internships at $5,000–$5,800 a week.
Quant roles at Virtu Financial
Virtu Financial is an electronic market maker and execution-services firm headquartered in New York, and the only company on this list listed on a stock exchange. Its early-career hiring runs through internships in quantitative research (PhD), software engineering and hardware, with a HackerRank test as the first step.
Virtu’s board showed 44 postings on Nov 11, 2026, 15 of them US quant, research or engineering reqs across New York (10) and Austin (6).
Virtu Financial quant salary
Base: “Salary Range: $175,000 – $200,000 (salary range is exclusive of bonuses, benefits or other compensation)” on Quantitative Researcher (PhD) in New York and Austin, read from Virtu’s board on Nov 11, 2026. Summer 2027 internships in quantitative research (PhD), software engineering and frontend engineering are posted at $5,000–$5,800 a week, exclusive of sign-on bonuses and housing. Experienced software listings post $130,000–$200,000. The trader listings on the board carry no figure.
Virtu Financial pay by track
| Track | Role title | New-grad base | Summer 2027 internship | Experienced base | Open now |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Quant trader | Trader | Not posted | Not posted | Not posted | Yes |
| Quant researcher | Quantitative Researcher (PhD) | Not posted | $5,000–$5,800 a week | $175k–$200k | Yes |
| Quant developer | Software Engineer | Not posted | $5,000–$5,800 a week | $130k–$200k | 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 Virtu Financial 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 | Median $310K |
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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