Quantitative Researcher, High Frequency Trading

Auros • New York, NY

78d

About The Position

We are seeking a highly motivated Quantitative Researcher to join our dynamic team. This is an exciting opportunity to leverage your passion for cryptocurrency and financial markets. You will be exposed to the fast-paced world of high-frequency trading (HFT) while learning new strategies within a growing asset class. The cryptocurrency market presents an additional layer of complexity, creating opportunities for solving technical challenges with innovative solutions.
Join the founding team in the heavily invested next generation build out of the HFT business line from an already successful systematic trading business.
Add value in every part of the profit pipeline, from alpha generation to inventory management, risk management to execution and strategy logic.
Work with and learn from other successful, 10 year+ experienced quants and traders from T1 firms.

Requirements

• Use critical thinking and data driven decision making to prioritise tasks and drive the company forward
• Has an entrepreneurial drive, and doesn’t wait for a directive before pushing ahead to deliver solutions.
• Have an inherent understanding of stochastic processes and be able to explain how individual observations in a market relate to context and statistical distributions
• Have experience working with datasets that can’t fit on one machine, and be familiar with various cluster technology
• Have experience with market-leading modelling and learning methods for predicting time series with extensive context.
• Have experience with the high performance requirements of HFT, and an understanding of how systems need to adapt to compete at low latencies.

Benefits

• Opportunity to work at the forefront of the digital asset industry
• Remote and flexible work
• Autonomy and a flat structure means you can contribute your ideas from day one and help shape the foundation that will power our future business.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Education Level: No Education Listed
• Number of Employees: 11-50 employees