Crypto Options Quantitative Researcher
Working exclusively with the founder of a well-capitalized, technology-driven digital asset manager, backed by highly respected industry professionals. This firm has a massive global presence and deep institutional backing across Asia.
They're looking to bring on an experienced Quantitative Researcher/Trader to join a Senior Portfolio Manager on a growing team focused on systematic crypto options trading.
Job description:
- Seeking a Quantitative Researcher/Trader to join a hedge fund to build and optimize mid to low frequency crypto options trading strategies
- This is a unique opportunity to work in a nascent team within a major crypto trading and investing conglomerate. The successful researcher will work directly with the portfolio manager (over 10 years of positional and HFT options trading experience at a tier-one HFT market maker) to execute the research agenda and contribute to the development of new strategies
Job duties:
- Alongside the Portfolio Manager, the researcher will:
- Work on the entire research pipeline, including data gathering, data preparation, feature engineering, and model training, tuning, validation, and deployment
- Build and iteratively improve systematic trading logic through custom backtest code
- Collaborate with the development team on execution related improvements and issues relating to deployed strategies
- Occasionally monitor live trading, making use of and building custom visualization tools to improve trading performance and generate new ideas
- Stay abreast of market events and where necessary, construct well-formulated, discretionary decision-making frameworks alongside the PM on non-systematic trading opportunities
- Take a very high degree of ownership of pnl outcomes
Requirements
- 1-5 years of quantitative research or options experience
- Very strong preference for candidates with systematic crypto positional options trading experience
- Strong preference for candidates with systematic positional options trading experience, either at a proprietary trading firm or hedge fund
- HFT options experience is a nice-to-have, C++ is nice to have
- Python proficiency is essential
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