An energy trading firm, built like a technology company.
CET Energy is an independent, Switzerland-based firm combining a trading desk with proprietary AI and machine learning — a single team across markets and engineering.
Independent. Technical. Disciplined.
CET Energy is a specialist power trading firm built around engineering, market expertise and disciplined risk-taking.
We trade power exclusively — day-ahead and intraday — across multiple European markets. Our strategies are systematic, supported by quantitative models and executed through infrastructure we design, build and operate ourselves.
Traders, quantitative researchers and software engineers work as one team, turning market insight into production systems and production systems into repeatable execution.
What we stand for.
Integrity
We operate transparently and hold ourselves to institutional standards of conduct and governance. In markets that depend on trust between counterparties, how we behave matters as much as how we perform. We are clear about what we do and how we do it, we honour our commitments, and we keep the controls and record-keeping that let us stand behind every decision. Risk and oversight operate independently of the trading desk, so the people setting limits are never the people incentivised to breach them — and good conduct is treated as a precondition for doing business, not a box to be ticked afterwards.
Rigour
Decisions are evidence-led. We test, measure and challenge before we commit capital. Conviction at CET Energy has to be earned with data, not asserted with confidence: every strategy is backtested, validated on information it has never seen, and measured honestly against what actually happened. We are comfortable being wrong on paper so that we are right with capital, and we would rather kill a promising idea that fails out-of-sample than defend it because it feels right. That same discipline applies after a trade as well as before it — we attribute outcomes, separate skill from luck, and feed what we learn straight back into the models and processes that drive the next decision.
Ownership
We build what we rely on and take responsibility for outcomes across the firm. Our edge comes from systems we design, operate and understand ourselves, rather than tools rented from third parties whose behaviour we cannot see into. That same sense of ownership runs through how the team works: traders, quantitative researchers and engineers sit together, share the same goals and take collective responsibility for results — good and bad. When something breaks we fix the root cause, when something works we make it repeatable, and nobody hides behind a hand-off. Owning the whole stack, and the outcomes it produces, is what lets us move quickly and improve compound over time.
Join the desk.
We hire exceptional people across trading, research and engineering. There are no open positions at the moment, but we are always glad to hear from outstanding candidates.
No current openings
We don’t have any vacancies right now. If you believe you could add to the team, we welcome speculative applications and will keep them on file for when a role opens up.
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