Graduate Programs – Open to final year students 

2024 Graduate Trader Program 

Are you passionate about maths, puzzles and strategy games? Interested in how you can turn this passion into a career?

SIG is looking for soon-to-be and recent graduates who are interested in using decision science to solve problems in the world around them to join our 2024 Graduate Quantitative Trader program.  

SIG’s Quantitative Trader program is designed to help you develop into an autonomous decision maker, capable of creating profitable trading strategies, assessing risk, and appropriately allocating firm capital. At the end of the program, you’ll be invited to attend a 10-week training class in our Philadelphia office, where you’ll learn directly from one of our founding partners, as well as senior traders who have decades of experience in the industry.

2024 Buy Side Research Graduate Program 

Do you enjoy watching how company specific news and current events impact the financial markets? Like solving puzzles and working competitively with a team to win?

SIG is looking for final year students who are interested in why financial markets move the way they do to join our 2024 Buy Side Research Graduate Program.  

Our Buy Side Research Analysts work directly with our traders to identify trading opportunities in the equity and options markets. From providing real-time opinions on breaking news to in-depth analysis of future catalyst events, our Buy Side Research Analysts have a constant impact on our trading strategies.

As a Buy Side Research Analyst, you will be responsible for finding opportunities that other market participants may not be capitalizing on, either by discovering new information or considering existing knowledge from a different perspective. You will be embedded in a sector-focused trading desk and work collaboratively with traders who rely heavily on the analysis you 
provide to make trading decisions.

2024 Technology Graduate Program

Want to engage in business-critical roles from day one and step on the path to becoming a versatile problem solver? 

SIG’s opportunities for new tech grads will allow you to work alongside experienced software engineers on the development, delivery, support, and enhancement of our trading systems and infrastructure. With guidance and mentoring from your team, you’ll get hands-on experience beginning on your first day. The education associated with this program aims to familiarise you with our technology environment, our business, current industry topics pertaining to technology, and how we apply decision science at SIG.

Successful candidates will be in their final year BS or MS Computer Science, Computer Engineering, or a similar major. You will have well-developed analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to identify a problem, evaluate it, and suggest solutions while collaborating with your team. 

2023 Graduate Quantitative Strategist – Open to PhD/Master’s Applicants

Interested in using your problem-solving and programming skills to discover new trading signals? Want to have an immediate impact, translating ideas and conversations into profitable trading strategies?

SIG is looking for Master or PhD graduates who are hungry to dig into large data sets and find patterns within the financial markets. As a Quantitative Strategist, you will play a hybrid role between systematic trading and quantitative research, solving real-world problems and making a direct impact to our business. The successful candidate will be data-driven and detail-oriented, with a strong foundation in statistics and computer science. Quant Strategists are seated at the heart of our trading floor, constantly collaborating with others, and continually exploring the dynamic intricacies within the game of trading.

2023 Graduate Quantitative Researcher – Open to PhD Applicants 

SIG’s Quantitative Researchers hold PhDs or Post Docs from diverse fields including Mathematics, Physics, Computer Science, and Engineering. Our quants apply their problem-solving expertise to real-time trading opportunities within the capital markets.

We’re looking for accomplished researchers who are interested in growing their career in the field of quantitative finance. The type of problems we solve at SIG are often different from the subject of your PhD thesis, but nonetheless, our problems demand the attention of brilliant minds that have an extraordinary attention to detail and a relentless pursuit of understanding.

2023 Trading Internship – Sydney 

Are you passionate about math, puzzles and strategy games? Interested in how you can turn this passion into a career?

SIG’s Quantitative Trading Internship offers a unique opportunity to learn about quantitative trading. Working from our Sydney office, our interns will experience how our traders use decision science, game theory, and technology to make trading decisions. Our education program combines both classroom and on the ‘trading desk’ training, which provides interns with a deep exposure to trading, so they can decide if it is what they want to pursue as a career. 

2023 Buy Side Research Internship – Sydney 

Do you enjoy watching how company specific news and current events impact the financial markets? Like solving puzzles and working competitively with a team to win?
 
SIG is looking for penultimate year students who are interested in why financial markets move the way they do to join our 2023 Buy Side Research Internship Program.   

Working from our Sydney office, you will partner with our senior Buy Side Research Analysts and traders to assist in identifying trading opportunities in the options and equity markets. You will learn to perform in-depth company analysis around future catalyst events and provide real-time opinions on breaking news throughout the trading day. You will also gain experience in the financial markets by tracking company news and events, assisting with valuation work, or other event-driven projects.

Perks & Benefits

Breakfast + Lunch

Our kitchens are stocked with everything you’ll need to kick off your morning, and snacks and fresh fruit throughout the day. We provide a fully-catered lunch – our menu changes daily and is often themed from different countries reflecting the diverse nationalities here at SIG!

Dress Code (or Not)

At SIG our dress code is casual; jeans and runners can be worn every day, along with shorts in the summer. 

Annual Leave + Time Off

On top of the standard 20 days annual leave, employees can choose to work through public holidays and instead, use them towards annual leave. That's an extra 14 days! We also give our staff two bonus days off a year - just because sometimes you need a doona day. If you get married, we help you celebrate by gifting you an extra 5 days off. We also offer competitive paid maternity and paternity leave.

Matching Gifts

SIG will match an employee's contributions to Australian-registered charities, dollar for dollar, up to $1,000 per calendar year.

Membership

SIG employees can take advantage of our corporate memberships and watch sporting events at Sydney's Allianz Stadium and SCG.

Health + Fitness

SIG supports the health and wellness of our employees by providing an allowance each calendar year for gym memberships and fitness classes. 

Employee Assistance Program

Positive mental health and wellbeing is important, and we understand that balancing work and life can be stressful. We offer a free confidential counselling and advice program for all employees and their families.

Educational Assistance

We encourage all our employees to take responsibility for their development, including undertaking further education, so we offer contributions towards your education fees.

Service Awards

We love to celebrate long service with gifts at 5, 10, 15 and 20 years with SIG!

Women in SIG Discovery Day 2023

You are invited to join us for 2-day informative and insightful event to find out what it’s like to work at Susquehanna (SIG). If you are studying towards a degree in Maths, Physics, Finance, Economics, Actuarial Studies, Engineering, Computer Science, Software Development, our Trading, Technology and Research spaces have opportunities for you.

Through panel discussions, intimate meet and greets with SIG employees, and even gaming sessions, you’ll get firsthand sneak peek into SIG’s unique culture and the different roles within the business.

Most importantly, you will also hear about how one of our women leaders forged their path in trading and found success in the industry – To learn about our Women in SIG visit https://sig.com/about/leaders/

Discovery Day 2023 

Calling all pre-penultimate students: SIG is hosting our Discovery Day, a 2-day program in our office to discover what it’s like to work at SIG.  Through panel discussions, intimate meet and greets with SIG employees, and other interactive sessions, SIG Discovery Days give you the opportunity to learn about what we do. You will leave with a broad exposure to areas of our business and our unique culture and work environment.

Perks & Benefits

Breakfast + Lunch

Our kitchens are stocked with everything you’ll need to kick off your morning, and snacks and fresh fruit throughout the day. We provide a fully-catered lunch – our menu changes daily and is often themed from different countries reflecting the diverse nationalities here at SIG!

Dress Code (or Not)

At SIG our dress code is casual; jeans and runners can be worn every day, along with shorts in the summer. 

Annual Leave + Time Off

On top of the standard 20 days annual leave, employees can choose to work through public holidays and instead, use them towards annual leave. That's an extra 14 days! We also give our staff two bonus days off a year - just because sometimes you need a doona day. If you get married, we help you celebrate by gifting you an extra 5 days off. We also offer competitive paid maternity and paternity leave.

Matching Gifts

SIG will match an employee's contributions to Australian-registered charities, dollar for dollar, up to $1,000 per calendar year.

Membership

SIG employees can take advantage of our corporate memberships and watch sporting events at Sydney's Allianz Stadium and SCG.

Health + Fitness

SIG supports the health and wellness of our employees by providing an allowance each calendar year for gym memberships and fitness classes. 

Employee Assistance Program

Positive mental health and wellbeing is important, and we understand that balancing work and life can be stressful. We offer a free confidential counselling and advice program for all employees and their families.

Educational Assistance

We encourage all our employees to take responsibility for their development, including undertaking further education, so we offer contributions towards your education fees.

Service Awards

We love to celebrate long service with gifts at 5, 10, 15 and 20 years with SIG!

We Play Poker

SIG’s annual, firm-wide poker tournament presents an opportunity to hone your gaming and decision-making skills while engaging in some friendly competition with your co-workers.

Players range from skilled veterans to poker newbies, who are offered poker classes taught by our very own World Series of Poker champion. Tournament finalists take home some amazing cash prizes, SIG merchandise, and bragging rights.

We Care

Our community is important to us. Each year, we provide support to non-profit organisations and other charitable initiatives. We love getting together for Cancer Council’s Biggest Morning Tea, or Salvation Army’s annual Toy Drive, to name a few

We Like Competition

Competition is part of the culture at SIG. In addition to outings like SIG Family Day at the Cricket, we have plenty of local SIG clubs including running, hiking, bowling and more. Each year, the Sydney team enters the JP Morgan Corporate Challenge and Bloomberg Square Mile Relay.

We're More Than Just a Job

If you ask employees why they like SIG, they’ll almost always say the same thing: the people. We like spending time with each other both in and out of the office. We engage in many sports and social activities throughout the year. And each December, every office gets together for a well-deserved year-end celebration.

We're Always Learning

Our SIG Speaker Series gives us the opportunity to hear from thought leaders and experts (including our own) across many topics. From professors to chess masters, Todd Sampson to Dr. Sam Roberts, our recent talks have covered expert decision making, persuasion, neuroscience, and the cloud.