Your Career. Accelerated.

By solving vitally important problems in the markets, you’ll learn faster, achieve more and grow in ways you never imagined.

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We position our people for success by matching them to roles based on their interests, strengths and potential.

Markets & Trading

Make complex, data-driven risk decisions at scale in real time.

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Quantitative Research

Apply your quantitative skills to mission-critical predictive modeling.

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Engineering

Join a team of problem solvers who rapidly build technology for deployment.

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Business Operations

Provide the expertise that enables everything we do.

Start Your Career Strong

Our student programs engage and inspire everyone from curious freshmen to graduating seniors and PhDs.

From immersive internships to events and challenging contests, there are many ways to grow with us.

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A Culture of Peak Performance

You’ll meet brilliant people at our firm. Working in a culture of collaboration and mutual learning, they’ll bring out the best in you.

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“The world is ever-changing. There are always new things to learn.”

Hear how Xiaojun applied his curiosity to propel exceptional professional growth.

"We invest in big things, we all look to the future.”

Louise is a scientist. At Citadel Securities, she applies theory to the markets. In a few years, she’s become both a critical contributor and mentor, innovating and building the business while helping new colleagues apply their academic skills.

"I look at things that are impossible, and they get me excited."

Dmitry loves the markets. His willingness to approach seemingly impossible feats as opportunities makes him a culture carrier and leader. His contributions propelled his rise from individual contributor to Head of Options Technology within four years.

"I don’t think there is a limit of what you can achieve."

Sören’s initiative, commercial acumen and creativity took him from an intern to a business leader in just over 3 years. Today, he heads our Foreign Exchange business—a team that recently won Best FX Flow Market Maker at e-FX Awards.

"Everyone is motivated to solve problems in the best way possible."

Tom joined out of college and became a technical lead in only a few years. He is now in his third leadership role at the firm. Throughout his career, he’s had ample opportunity to experiment with different solutions. As a manager, he encourages his own team to do the same.

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Realize Your Full Potential

From day one, team members have the chance to learn and grow at an exceptional pace. If you’re ambitious and take initiative, you’ll find new opportunities that push you even further. Here’s how one of our colleagues accelerated their career here.

Shape Bold
Solutions to
Complex Problems

Our team thrives on the freedom to innovate and execute. When you take the initiative, you’ll be empowered with greater responsibility. We’ll ensure you have the resources to do great work.

About Our Team

We seek out the curious. We hire the ambitious. Because we operate in a fast-paced environment, we need a team of leaders and brilliant problem solvers. Our people are always willing to rise to the challenge—and teach their colleagues along the way.

Peng Zhao
Chief Executive Officer

Citadel: Peng Zhao. August 2, 2022. © 2022 Andrew Collings Photography.

Providing World-Class Benefits

We provide the benefits you might expect from a leading financial firm—and then go above and beyond.

Depending on location, personal and health benefits can include access to a concierge healthcare team, a health advocate and health counseling, egg freezing and adoption support and personal benefits such as paid parental leave and back-up daycare.

On the financial side, benefits can include tuition reimbursement, student loan refinancing, 401(k) match and identity theft protection.

Care for Your Health

Our benefits cover all aspects of your physical and mental health, from fitness subsidies and wellness initiatives to mindfulness programs and telehealth.

Stay Fed, Stay Focused

Our offices offer breakfast, lunch and snacks to keep you working at peak performance.

Take Time to Socialize

Whatever we do, we do to the utmost—especially when we show our social side. Box seats for athletic events. Rooftop yoga. There are always opportunities to get to know your colleagues better.

Committed to
Diversity & Inclusion

Diverse perspectives accelerate innovation and strengthen our competitive advantage. Ensuring opportunities exist for those perspectives is vital to our success as a firm.

We are committed to building an inclusive workplace where every individual can learn, thrive and pursue excellence. To deliver on this commitment, we develop promising talent from individuals of all backgrounds, including those traditionally underrepresented in finance and STEM.

Empowering Individuals of All Backgrounds

In our recruiting efforts, we champion diverse talent through events, sponsorships and partnerships with campus-based groups and other organizations.

In partnership with Thrive Scholars, we have built an externship program to support high-achieving students from under-resourced backgrounds. The program teaches transferable technical skills, financial acumen and professional soft skills that underpin lasting success in finance.

In addition, we continue to build on our internal programming to support talent from all backgrounds and foster an atmosphere of inclusion within our firm.

Investing in Tomorrow’s Talent

Excellence is everywhere, but it requires opportunity to flourish. Access to STEM education will lift up talented individuals, benefiting our industry and society.

As such, we nurture the next generation of outstanding talent. We support innovative teaching and learning models that drive excellence in problem-solving and STEM by providing funding and mentorship.

We support the vital efforts of organizations such as the College Board, Thrive Scholars, Break Through Tech, Data Science for Everyone and AnitaB.org, among others.

Work in
Global Cities

Our people work in cities known for their vibrancy, energy and culture. The skills you learn here can take you to any of our global locations, working shoulder to shoulder with the world’s best talent.