[CSENews] This evening: Allston (seeking interns/full-time candidates)

Thu Oct 28 14:41:03 EDT 2010

Careers at Allston Trading (Chicago) Info Session

Thursday, Oct 28th at 6:30PM
Location: 3105 EB

Dinner provided

*Company Overview*

Allston Trading, LLC is a Chicago-based high-frequency trading firm 
specializing in algorithmic market-making and arbitrage.  Algorithmic 
trading is the ultimate problem space for developing the fastest and 
most powerful real-time, parallel computing solutions.  Allston's 
complex and highly concurrent infrastructure sits between our 
algorithmic strategies and more than 30 exchanges worldwide.  Our firm 
seeks not just the best and brightest students, but students who will 
take ownership of their projects.  It's a fast-paced, high-stakes 
development environment in an industry full of the hardest problems with 
the most lucrative solutions.

*Allston Internships*

Allston Trading is accepting applications for its summer internship 
program and full time positions.  We separate ourselves from our 
competitors by making an extra effort to place interns and college grads 
on real projects at the forefront of our firm-wide research and 
development efforts.  We are seeking not only the best and brightest 
students, but students who have excellent critical thinking skills, and 
students who take initiative and take ownership of their projects.  
Candidates must be able to master a unique kind of problem solving where 
finding and identifying the correct problems is a problem in itself.  
Candidates will be expected to produce pragmatic solutions within the 
real-world limitations of trading and research. 

What you leave behind at the firm will not be a theory or an idea, but 
(if you're any good) a live strategy making or losing real money.

The right candidate should have most of the following:

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*Research experience outside of the financial industry (cs, engineering, 
natural sciences, mathematics, etc)?

*Programming skill in at least one language and proficiency in at least 
a low level language (e.g. c, c++), a higher level object oriented 
language (e.g. java, c#) and a high level interpreted language (e.g. 
python, ruby, perl)?

*Knowledge of a broad range of technologies. The specifics are less 
important than a demonstrated ability and desire to continually develop 
new skills?

*Commitment to and experience with good programming practices (e.g. 
source control, testing, automation, etc.)?

*Some demonstration of having worked on a substantial project based on 
curiosity above and beyond the possibility of financial reward or 
academic credit

*Lauren Mallik | Recruiting Coordinator | Allston Trading LLC*

T: 312.663.7352 | F: 312.663.8841

lmallik at allstontrading.com

-- 
Teresa Isela VanderSloot, M.S.
Academic Specialist/Adviser
Department of Computer Science and Engineering
College of Engineering
Michigan State University
3201 Engineering Building
East Lansing, Mi 48824
(517) 353-5455

Web: http://www.cse.msu.edu/~iselava1/
MSU Students: for an appointment, visit: https://www.egr.msu.edu/adcalendar/

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