Headlands Technologies

Headlands Technologies is “a quantitative trading firm at the forefront of finance and technology”, founded in 2009 by three former senior executives from the trading side of Citadel. Since then it has been “designing and implementing cutting-edge quantitative trading strategies in an array of financial products on venues across the globe”.

The firm runs a genuinely global operation from Chicago, New York, Austin, Amsterdam, London and Singapore, which lets it “seamlessly operate around the clock, harnessing its global presence to trade 24/7 across diverse financial markets”. Headlands is privately funded and does not accept outside investors.

Headlands is explicit that “our people are at the core of everything we do”, hiring a small number of strong quantitative researchers and software developers and giving them room to own hard problems. It recruits at both experienced and entry level, and is known for a research-first interview process rather than a speed-focused one.